Fruit for the spirit!

This morning I awakened to the call of wild turkeys.  Sometimes the predawn alarm is sung by a pack of coyotes on the hill.  I don't live in the wilderness, but I am fortunate to share this area on the Bay with creatures great and small.  Songbirds, sea birds, skunks, even mountain lions live in close proximity.  A fresh rosy apricot fell from the tree and nestled in the lawn like tissue in a gift box.  Pots of white roses are blooming lushly on my deck. All of this beauty in fruit and flowers would not exist without the primal dance of bees.  In daily human routine we often pay no attention to the essential balance of this extraordinary ecosystem.  Today, especially, I am breathing easier for the awareness of it.  

Like most, I have a " to do" for the day.  Send out another résumé, check inventory for a potential client, plan a change to my medical insurance, buy dog treats, put another load of laundry in before I leave.  Find a way to earn more, do more, be more.  A few minutes in my yard puts life back in perspective.  Really, we control so little.  It can be reassuring that there is an amazing natural world out there, teeming with abundant life, well ordered and functioning by brilliant innate intelligence.  

Discovery of the perfect natural laws through science is given accolades.  Those who bear witness as researchers and scientists, mathematicians, and academics often are the proponents of random evolutionary process.   Imagine how terrifying it must be to acknowledge that there is a creative intelligence so brilliant, dynamic and powerful as to set universes in motion with such precision and balance.  From black holes to butterflies, no detail left to chance. Are we accountable to that intelligence?  Most definitely, by making a conscious choice to do no harm.  

 Personally, I am filled with gratitude to think I am part of something so much larger and grander than humanity can even imagine.  I really appreciate earnest efforts of scientists and the curiosity of adventurers whose evidence reassures me of the majesty of divine design right down to nano particles, and the cells that regenerate in my body.  My faith is restored each day in the cathedral of trees, surge of the tides, sparkle of stars and a delicious, ripe apricot that has fallen at my feet.