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[Tree Hugger]

I was out this afternoon watching the enormous clouds gathering overhead and in the distance, fingers of lightening pointing down to the ground. These monsoons roll through here often in the summer and most of the world is not aware that Arizona even has monsoons. It occurred to me, as I was looking at this powerful display; this light show in the sky, that these are the times which grab the attention of humanity, just because of their tremendous ability to overwhelm the senses, and give one the real sense of one’s size in relation to the heavens.

But then, as I looked down at my footpath, at a lowly tiny weed trying to struggle up through the pebbles put down to discourage it, I thought of how I was standing on a miracle just as great as the one I was seeing in the sky. Many a human will come out of doors, to see a thunder and lightening display, yet how many would come out of their house to see a tiny weed growing?

I bent over to look more carefully at the weed, while the wind began to pick up speed and swirl around me. It was flat to the ground, just perfect for this windy area, which will even make growing corn bend over to the ground. This weed was branching out like a flattened tree, so intricate were its parts, so beautiful yet totally ignored by the world. Here was an example of Sacred Geometry under my feet. Here was just as great a creation as the cloudbursts and the water cycle. This silent weed, not make thunderous booms nor shoot out bolts of lightening, yet it was equal to the beauty of the storm over my head. This hearty plant was growing where I daily walked upon it, yet here it was surviving better than the food seedlings I had planted.

How much humanity misses by only paying attention to the things they call majestic, like thunder and lightening and mountains and galaxies.
Humanity was suppose to look at the tiny things and then at the big things and see the Mind of the Divine behind the fact that they both have the stamp of the maker. But humanity forgot their connection to God and nature and now only enormous forces of spectacular scope, gain their attention. Yet, all things speak of God, even the things thought by humanity, to be lowly and of no consequence.

There can be nothing that is lowly and of no consequence in the universe, even if man believes it so. Everything is of equal importance to creativity and it would not exist unless it was one of the vast potentials. The Cosmos does not create for no reason, but everything in existence has a reason. So my lovely symmetrical weed is part of the entire whole, just as much as every clouds, bringing life giving rain.

One only has to look at the plants here, to see how life hangs on and propagates no matter what the conditions. They are all ordered by unseen wisdom to know that when you cut them down they must then burst their seeds to scatter them to the wind. They are aware, and know, that this is the time they must spill their seeds, for there will not be another chance. The spores and seeds, tumble with the wind at just the right time, for the maturity of these plants is timed to the summer monsoons, and their life cycle is short and hurried as they must be to a certain point to propagate as the summer rain arrives. There is cooperation and awareness. The plants “know” when the water is coming. It shows wisdom and shows life is the struggle for fulfillment. It makes one think of all the humans who say they cannot succeed and life, because it is too hard, so they give up. These desert plants don’t know the meaning of give up.

I did not really know until I sat down to type this how much I have learned from these plants called desert weeds. The Bible said thousands of years ago
“Go to the ants and seek wisdom”
This time I looked at the weed next to the ants as the rain made one giant drop on their hill. Now they would instantly go to work and repair it without any kind of leader or forman. There is so much wisdom in nature yet those who say it’s not aware, have been too long gazing at lightening and thunder to look down.

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[Tree Hugger]

Hello Moosie
very nice AV.....gets the best of the week award.......love and hugs



Hello ho Baby
Another desert dweller ....great.......oh you can't imagine how big these things are and I know if I dont go out and get rid of the big ones I will have tumble weeds this winter. Even the goats can't eat some of this stuff. There are bunnied all around me but the weeds far out weigh the ability of the bunnies since some of them are strong smelling and bunnies avoid them......thank you for posting and its wonderful for you to have a use for them......love and light

[Tree Hugger]

Blessings Moosey!!



ho baby.....the only reason I know they are not native is my daughter rolled in some and they got embedded and I had to look it up to find out if there are toxics in that plant. They are not dangerous but the spikes work their way in, very nasty....thank you for letting me know about the pictures.....love to you