I shall not live in vain

EXPLORE #90

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson

During our yesterday's 'out of the ordinary' lunchtime walk along the shores of Lac Léman, my husband received a very upsetting phone call on his mobile phone. While he was occupied, I stepped a bit aside and immediately got attracted to and therefore captured the desperate and anxious growth of a wild rose bush amongst the pebbles covering the shore of Lake Léman. This feeble twig will try to develop some leaves and maybe push out a bud later, which might even, given half a chance, become a tiny rose...
It reminded me that we too, shall try to remain decent and humble in our dealings with life and our contemporaries, and that we should never give up on the goals we aim to achieve.
Every spring, nature and all living beings jump at yet another opportunity to renew and re-invent ourselves. We can do the same, we are 'the crown of God's creation' and therefore, all the more should we be able to battle on, cheerful and unbent (but willing to undergo some forceful twisting and 're-formation'), getting stronger and more beautiful in the process. If we are lucky, we will become a beautiful bloom :-)

I am sure this humble twig looks a bit better on black and LARGE

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