Just A Leaf

Voice : What are you staring at ?

Me : Your wonderful creation. 

Voice : I am glad you paused to admire My work. It is hard to get your race to find a moment of stillness.  

Me : Maybe that’s why we are referred to as 'race'.

Voice : Ha ha. Doing absolutely nothing, nature has a way to regenerate, renew and grow by itself. It is not racing anywhere. It is not competing. It is serving by it's mere presence.   

Me : Yes. 

I was looking at this one tiny leaf gently fall off from the tree. What a beautiful glide it had all the way down to the grass. From the millions of leaves, this one leaf struck my attention.    

Voice : Hmm

Me : Is this a creative way of wasting my time ?

Voice : You think it was strange to care or notice a single leaf fall gently all the way from the branch to the ground ? Now, imagine countless number of trees in the world. Now grasp the infinite number of leaves - growing, renewing, falling from all the trees in existence. The numbers are impossible to fathom. 

Me : Oh yes !

Voice : Now imagine from these vast infinite numbers, there is one leaf that is hand-picked, chosen and cradled by Me. Grasp the great fortune of that leaf amongst so many which has My special attention right from its entire journey of birth, renewal and the end. 

You are like this leaf in this infinite vastness. You have no idea about this priceless life you live. With all the things happening in the Universe, you are gliding in the hands of the Creator Himself.  

Me : So hard to grasp this.  

Voice : How many feel lost, alone and defeated ? And, here you are…enjoying an effortless moment of stillness with Me…only because you are wrapped in the My fulfilling Divine Love. 

You are chosen. 

Me : Wow

Voice : The winds of destiny can blow all the leaves away, but the leaf that is in My hand is beyond seasons or hurricanes.