June: A Generous Tune

O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in him 

 Psalm 34:8

It is a beautiful sunny afternoon and I am thinking... oh how nice it is to have such a vibrant sun out there. June is finally kicking! I love the sun so so much that I feel we have some magnetic attraction her and me... In all her positivity all my negativity just melts!

June is very generous... and it reminded me of the goodness and the generosity of the Lord. There is a certain feeling of drunkenness that one gets from the heat that is so similar to the one we get from eating too much or dancing too much or even just sleeping too much... It is so hazy, I dare say one may almost hallucinate... June is rememberful, as in he awakes the memory, of stories in our childhood, of summers long ago, of our beloveds, of things from here and there... And my colleagues was taken by this spirit of rememberfullness and he was telling me a story about how good the Lord is and how He sees everything. That reminded me of a story! (What a Juneful cycle!) ps. If anyone is searching for a neologist linguister, I am all up for it!

A few years ago I was attending vespers at a very nice little church and at the end of the service they give some very tasty beard . Usually there is enough (and more) for everyone but that day, they had just enough for everyone except the lady behind me.This bread  is probably as delightful as manna was for the Moses generation! And here I had my piece in hand and was ready to devour it and I saw that there was no more and so in some very unusual act of generosity of my part, I turn and offer her my piece which she takes happily (she was not aware that is was the last piece). I was not sad, actually I was happy. My heart was peaceful... I went back to my place to take my bag and leave just to see a  dude running toward me with one WHOLE bread loaf and he goes "this is all for you miss"... I say "oh wow, why... how!"... And he tells me that he was inside watching the line and he saw what happened and he has this one kept aside for later but he decided to give it to me and get some more for later. I was happy before... but now I was very very happy! And truly happy are those who take refuge in the Lord... Not because of a small (or big piece of bread) but because it goes far far more beyond that.... 

It is a silly story but it reminded me of the goodness of the Lord. That no matter how generous we are, He is the source of generosity... No matter how tasty that bread was, He is the sweetest taste our souls can ever feast upon.... and if sometimes bitterness grows here and there I will shake it off me because I have tasted and seen how good our God is...

June gave my heart a song of thanksgiving. June gave my heart a taste of heaven...

Really the Lord sees, and really the Lord is generous...

O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in him...

It is a beautiful afternoon!!