Enjoying The Moment - February 27

Do you ever find yourself rushing through life, wishing you were somewhere else or that things were different? Today, Liz is on a long walk, giving herself the space to reflect on the joy of truly savoring each moment. When you embrace the rhythm of life and fully appreciate what’s in front of you, it becomes a source of nourishment and joy.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott and I'm in the porch way of St Michael and All Angels Church at Bampton which is in mid Devon and my sister and I we are walking along the bank of the River Ex all the way up from Exmouth which is where it goes into the sea up towards Exmoor where it rises and we're doing this in 8-10 mile chunks at a time and today we've walked from Tiverton and we're heading up towards Brushford and we just stopped in the church here at Bampton for a cup of tea and a sandwich and it's a sunny day it's a beautiful day quite nippy and we've on the walk we've been following the river watching it gush down it's making its route down towards Exeter and then on to Exmouth and in the churchyard here there are some exquisite snowdrops little clumps of snowdrops across the churchyard and I'm standing underneath a yew tree which I think must be ancient it's huge I couldn't tell you how old hundreds and hundreds of years old I should think and as we've been walking along the lanes my sister and I we've just been enjoying being outside we've seen woodpeckers we've watched birds flit across the path we've caught glimpses of the river as it gushes by and then we've been counting the miles down to Bampton which is where I am now because we knew we were going to stop and open our sandwiches and have a cup of tea and it's been glorious the day is cold but the sun has got a bit of warmth in it it's been an absolute delightful walk so far and there's something about really savouring those moments which I really do enjoy when I go walking just savouring the rhythm the slowness of life you can't speed a walk that's not the point of the walks that I want to walk you enjoy it you allow it to absorb you it almost has a character and a personality and there's something about really appreciating and being in the moment which I find walking is like a catalyst it really helps me be in the moment and oh you can hear the old church bell there just striking the quarter hour I think and I was with my mother the other day and we went for a cup of tea and my mum is quite fussy about where she sits in a cafe and we went we sat in this cafe and she by the time I'd got the cup of tea she had moved tables because it wasn't the right table and then we sat eating lunch and having a cup of tea and my mum bless her was eyeing a table behind her that was her favourite table and all through our lunch she was saying oh I wish we'd had that table I wish we could sit at that table I wish that was a table we were sitting at and it just struck me as I sat there with her and I just love hanging around my mum she's an absolute dear it just struck me that you know a lot of the time we don't appreciate the present we don't appreciate what is happening around us what instead we do is we look to what we haven't got or what we the way we wish that life was instead and coming on this walk today is just a reminder about just gratitude being in the moment seeing close-ups spring rooting taking root the birds flying and singing and not thinking about what next but relishing and enjoying what is and I think that's what my message is today is I'm reflecting and maybe it's something for you to reflect on too do you ever find yourself in a place of hurry up where you're wanting life to hurry on so that you can get to the next stage and what would it be like to actually just enjoy where you are at the moment and appreciate and feel gratitude for where you are at the moment so that's maybe a reflection today that I'm having for myself and maybe a reflection for you too which is rather than think about always what's happening next just enjoy the present moment and enjoy where you are and what's happening around you