You might think you’re on Nature’s treasure heap. You might be weeping for the beauty of it all. You might want to share it with the entire world. Certainly, you want to share it with family and friends, the people who matter the most to you. Why? Because you think, hope, wish and pray they’ll enjoy it at least a portion as much as you do.
What do you do when you discover they don’t? What do you do when you learn that, for them, it’s just a lawn that needs to be cut, a yard that needs to be sodded, trees that need to be trimmed, a garden that needs to be weeded and perfectly organized? What do you do when you learn that they sigh and roll their eyes, that “when you’ve seen one sunset (tree, bird, flower, animal, cloud formation), you’ve seen them all.”?
You hurt for a little while. You shake your head. Your heart aches. You feel like you’ve lost something you thought you had.
But you were wrong.
Then you shrug your shoulders, think about the glories you see every day, glories that they may never see, beauty they may not want to see, and know that, tomorrow, you’ll see something else, something wonderful. You’ll see it. And, for now, that will have to be enough.
