Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and this is where I go out and about and explore what's on my doorstep and just really have my eyes open for nature and listen deeply and feel deeply some of the messages that I feel nature is trying to tell me.
And so today I've come down to the cemetery in our village and the cemetery in the summertime is a wild flower meadow so it's just full of long grasses and you can see the colors of red or green or blue flowers peeking through and it's thronging with wildlife and insects but I'm here today in January it's very cold we've had an easterly wind blowing for the last few days and the ground is still quite hard and it feels as though spring is still quite a long way away but I've come here specifically to see if I can see signs of spring and sure enough in this meadow which has been cut down and the grass is now quite short and there isn't much life going on but sure enough in this meadow peeking through are tiny little signs of spring.
In particular I can see a really beautiful exquisitely yellow primrose and the primrose is pretty much the only flower I can see at the moment on the grass it's one of the first to come through but it is so delicate and so pretty and I wonder as I look at this primrose whether the primrose has any reflections on how beautiful it is and how perfect it is in its own right and of course the primrose doesn't it just does what it does as a primrose and it made me realize that much of the time I can sometimes get lost in thoughts of am I good enough?
Am I doing a good enough job?
Could I do better?
I see that other people are doing much better than me and I think I'm just not doing enough with my life or in the world.
Does that resonate with you?
And yet when I see the primrose what I realize is that that primrose isn't trying to be a big bold sunflower and it doesn't envy a sunflower and the primrose isn't bemoaning that it's not sweet smelling and pink like a rose it's just being a primrose and I think it's so easy sometimes to forget that we are exquisitely beautiful in our own right that we are allowing the creative energy of life to come through us and in the same way that that creative energy of life comes through the primrose and just allows the primrose to be so beautiful in its own right so the creative energy of life is coming through us and it's not that we have to be more than or better than we actually are.
What we're being asked to do is to settle our minds and to look within and to see what it is that we are being asked and drawn to do in the world in this moment.
You see this beautiful little primrose all it needs to do is be a primrose it doesn't need to be anything more than that in fact had I not looked for it I might not have seen it maybe nobody was going to see it but it doesn't matter it just does what it does because that's what it's supposed to do so my request to you is that you reflect settle your mind inwards and look inside yourself and see what it is what your blueprint is what it is that you're being called to be and do in the world and know that that is enough and that whatever that is that is your contribution to the world and like the primrose it is exquisitely beautiful.
