My Teacher Leans Towards the Sun

Fascinating!

I grow my lovely wheatgrass on a shelf next to my front windows.

Every morning I check it for water, wipe up the extraneous dirt that mysteriously appears overnight around each pan. It's always a very small amount but I imagine the unfurling and casting off of the hulls, the growing, (even dancing) of my happy, may I say MOLD-FREE YEA! grass sheds small bits of dirt. But one thing I have learned to do, each day, is to turn the pan 180 degrees. I do this because every morning the grass has spent the day before leaning towards the window (the sun) as it grows.

If I don't turn it, it will actually end up in a very strong lean/growing path in that one direction - toward the sun. And I do want it to grow as vertically as possible to reduce the risk of dirt on the grass. And so I turn the pans everyday to make the grass correct itself and ultimately grow very tall and straight.

But wait....

It got me to thinking. HA!

That grass knows where its life source comes from. It KNOWS, as the creation, that it gets its strength and life (aka chlorophyll) from the sun. It knows this in the depths of its molecular structure and it reaches for it everyday. And in fact, each day that I break it's path by turning it 180 degrees - it corrects my rude interruption - and starts redirecting it's path BACK to the sun. Where it receives its very life and health!

Random thoughts:

We get good things from the sun! We get our vitamin D from the sun. As my dear friend Ron has taught me, vitamin D deficiency is serious and 15 or so minutes everyday (flip like a pancake - sans sunscreen - though I like it on my face and hands) is great for us. I personally take a vitamin D supplement, 2,500 units per day, since I recently tested deficient!

Vitamin D is credited for:
"...increasing levels of vitamin D3 could prevent diseases that claim nearly 1 million lives throughout the world each year, as the widespread vitamin D deficiency seen today is now thought to fuel an astonishingly diverse array of common chronic diseases, such as:

Cancer
Hypertension
Heart disease

Autism
Obesity
Rheumatoid arthritis

Diabetes 1 and 2
Multiple Sclerosis
Crohn’s disease

Cold & Flu
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Tuberculosis

Septicemia
Signs of aging
Dementia

Eczema & Psoriasis
Insomnia
Hearing loss

Muscle pain
Cavities
Periodontal disease

Osteoporosis
Macular degeneration
Reduced C-section risk

Pre eclampsia
Seizures
Infertility

Asthma
Cystic fibrosis
Migraines

Depression
Alzheimer’s disease
Schizophrenia"

All this great information about vitamin D, and SO MUCH MORE is available at Dr. Mercola's website!

Another thought -

The sun gives our entire creation life. Without sun we would be devoid of life. The sun warms us up, it makes us sweat (good to get rid of toxins), sparkles on the water, dances within our atmosphere before our eyes (ie: rainbows) gives us life and energy...just ask my wheatgrass!!!

So-

IF the grass that we walk on is intelligent enough to know what to lean towards/into, why do WE struggle with OUR right choices?

Why does my wheatgrass know that the sun is its source of strength, life, energy, all-goodness, and therefore patiently and persistently LEANS towards it everyday - no matter how after the mean lady turns it 180 degrees? I realize, it's so committed to the right thing, it can't help itself! I can only imagine what my life would be like if I could be a strong as a blade of grass!!! Whoo!

Why is my wheatgrass more patient than I?
Dare I say, even smarter?
Why does my wheatgrass do everything in its power, day after day, to be its very best and never gives up?

So the creation of my Creator teaches me to be the best of me everyday; correcting myself everyday so that by the end of my "tray" of life, I will have given it my best.

And to beat it all, I juice that grass and it gives ME all IT has...and still I get distracted. LOL

I am grateful that God teaches me through the grains of His grass and that I am not yet so dulled that I didn't miss this lesson.

I can BE GREENER THAN THE DAY BEFORE if I am as patient and committed and focused and forgiving as my little wheatgrass. When I fail, or chose a less-than-best choice, I just redirect. Redecide. Recommit. Repoint myself on the right path.

That is my formula for being GREENER THAN THE DAY BEFORE

So I will lean today, towards everything good and right and healing and healthy and life-giving. And if a mean person comes by my way and turns me off course, even by 180 degrees!!!....I will recorrect myself, holding no anger or interest in that person but instead in correcting my course.

Go Green! Happy Day!