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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Angad Kaur

Good Morning.

My neighbour dropped in for tea recently, bringing a few little flower cuttings from her flower pots.

I’d been immersed for some days in mediations with people where wounds from the past were arising and old positions being attacked or defended.

After my neighbour left, I sat quietly gazing at the flowers. They reached deep into my heart, touching me in such an unexpected way that renewed my understanding of how we are gifted by nature’s wisdom to uplift our responses to life’s challenges.

This month, Sikhs celebrate Guru Har Rai, who became the 7th Sikh Guru in 1644. He was revered for embodying the virtue of forgiveness and the principle of Nirvair - meaning without enemy or animosity; that the nature of the universe is not against itself.

Guru Har Rai also had a deep love and knowledge of the healing power of plants.

In the presence of these humble flowers touching my heart, I was reminded of the Guru’s response when his devotees questioned him for giving healing medicine to the son of an emperor who had declared the Guru’s father an enemy years before… He explained if someone breaks flowers with one hand and offers them in the other, the flowers will give their fragrance to both hands equally.

Through nature, God reminds me that forgiveness is two words - for giving.

May I remember that the heart, like a flower, is in constant readiness to make an offering in the spirit of true generosity; that to be for giving rather than against something or someone, releases the shackles of the past and contributes to a blossoming future.

Sat Naam

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