Look for blue flowers

By Tom Pauley | January 22, 2008

Friends,

I drove over the mountain from Lake Forest to Penelope’s house in Orange yesterday and I am thrilled by what I saw.

This is the area that was hardest hit by the fires last year. For miles and miles all you could see was scorched earth, burned trees and charred orange groves. It even killed an entire acre of prickly pear cactus and that stuff is full of water.

Boy, was that fire hot. One fireman we talked to told us that flames sometimes leaped 60 to 100 feet in the air and then fell back to earth like one of those killer waves on the north shore of Hawaii.

In fact, some of the tall Eucalyptus trees were only burned on the top. The fires seemed to choose what would die and what wouldn’t. Our firefighter friend called it a living breathing monster and he’d never seen one worse.

So my trips over the hill as we call it have been a rather uninspiring journey for some time now.

Oh, and let me add that every time the wind blows (and we do get devil winds this time of year) we’d have to sweep and clean this horrible black soot off the patio, the pools, the screens and well,…everything.

But the rains have finally come. Gentle rains this year, so no real mud slides to deal with. Even though, they evacuated some 100,000+ people when the storms started. See the mud is often worse than the fires. Once the mud starts flowing it’s like lava and there is no possibility of leaving. Many homes have been either buried or washed down the hill in years past.

My trip yesterday over the mountain, however, was absolutely fantastic. What a great example of the beauty and perfection of the Universe.

Now, I don’t know exactly what foliage is growing, but I’ve heard that there is a plant with a blue flower that only grows after a fire. The seeds can stay in the ground for forty or fifty years waiting. They need the heat of a fire to germinate.

Well, I don’t know for sure, but something is growing. Those black and devastated hills are alive again with the brilliant green color of a golf green. Maybe the blue flowers will come. I’ll keep a close watch, but I’m already thrilled with the green. It’s like God has painted the mountains with the color of hope and renewal.

A promise that we are never left alone. A promise that Chemicalization is only temporary.

And no matter how difficult your situation is…no matter how hard you have it…once your lesson is learned…once the dead wood and brush has been burned away…your new life will come to you.

Your good will find you.

You can have anything you want in this life. All you have to do is ask and be willing and ready to receive. Sometimes that requires a little Chemicalization.

No worry. Just start looking for the little blue flowers. And love whatever comes.

Good Luck & Great Adventures,

Tom & Penelope

Blue flowers of love to you -jane

 You are the meek that will inherit the earth, you are the Righteous Ones that are the very stalwarts of this planet and the very light of the world and your lights are growing brighter and lighter each and every day, as you with Mother Earth, dance the dance of divinity, the dance of life, the dance of rebirth . . . Success . . . Abundance . . . Freedom! You are so loved!

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