Sweet Robin redbreast in the vegetable garden at Knights Hayes Court.
We didn't mean to find ourselves at Knights Hayes Court near Tiverton on Saturday lunch time.
I planned to get to Dunster Castle near Minehead in Somerset. But when it said ROAD CLOSED AHEAD at Cove and no clear diversion sign, we took a left turn anyway, off into winding narrow lanes, did a huge circular detour and ended up at exactly the spot where the road was CLOSED at Cove.
As Knights Hayes Court was so close it seemed the obvious solution. And I'm so glad we took a tour around the peaceful walled vegetable garden there - still very bare and wintery but with last year's greens still going strong.
If we hadn't we'd have missed this sweet Robin chirruping on a fruit cage pole. He was so friendly....let me get closer and closer with the camera...... and even flew down right to the concrete path at my feet and then hopped off into one of the newly tilled beds looking for worms. He felt like a glowing reward for all that driving round in circles.
Today this Matt Kahn quote spoke to me because I was feeling bad about being impatient and irritated and withdrawn and resentful at the weekend....thinking that meant the end of love instead of just another chance to love myself.....and Robin...... more not less...to the moon and back.....even though I'm wired up and tense and tearful more not less of the time.... this is also the reality of love.
Phew. I'm glad we've got that sorted out as Robin would say....
Featured Teaching: The Reality of Love
By Matt Kahn
From a spiritual perspective, love isn’t an emotion you feel all the time. It is an
unwavering depth of compassion and empathy that reaches inward to embrace yourself – no matter how mixed up, shut down, or overwhelmed you seem to be. When rooted in the vibration of love, you don’t have to feel better in order to bring forth the kindness and care that already dwells within you.
unwavering depth of compassion and empathy that reaches inward to embrace yourself – no matter how mixed up, shut down, or overwhelmed you seem to be. When rooted in the vibration of love, you don’t have to feel better in order to bring forth the kindness and care that already dwells within you.
Instead, love inspires you to embrace the innocence within your heart that wishes it felt something other than how things are.
Love is a selfless and harmonious response of greater support, not an emotional high of any kind.
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