Besides demonstrating the wisdom of being flexible, bamboo shows us the beauty of being an instrument of music.
A stalk of bamboo can become a flute responding to the breath of one person, and it can perform in a group, directed by the wind.
Have you ever heard a bamboo concert? Moved by a gust of wind, a cluster suddenly becomes a percussion performance, clacking, knocking, and swishing in a pleasing way that soothes and stirs the soul at the same time.
Today, let's be flexible and responsive to life in ways that are healthy for us and helpful for others. Also, let's listen. We may hear "the sound of music."
Let's be instruments too. We can be instruments of understanding, justice, freedom, healing, forgiveness, encouragement, love, learning, light, hope, joy, and more.
Such as peace,
Charlene
HOPE: Through each passage and season may you trust the goodness of life. - from The Twelve Gifts of Birth.
