Soul
of the Sunflower - Vedder
"Shadow
Flower and the Gardener of Time"
"Part II of III"
The Gardener beyond time began to explain to Shadowflower
the Law.
“This is Our Law. You and I have agreed this
Law together when you chose to come to this Garden of Time. This
Law is not good or bad. This Law is not a punishment. The Law
is a law of justice, of balance and of Harmony. It is a Law of
delight and it is the supreme Law of Love.”
The Gardener remembered the time when Shadowflower
had gone to the Garden of Time and he continued, “This Law
that you and I agreed at the beginning of time says simply, ‘As
you sow so shall you reap.’ This is a Law of fairness and
you and I agreed that this Law would be forever. No one ever escapes
this Law. This is how much I love each and every one of my Beloved
Creations. I never judge you. It is you who invoke the Law of
Love.
The Gardener beyond Time continued, “You invoked
the Law and this is why you are in shadow. This is why the bees
do not come to visit you. This is why the birds refuse to sing
of beauty in your presence. This is why you do not dance in the
sunshine and why you feel cold and alone. Let me help you child,
to reach a greater understanding,” invited the Gardener
beyond Time.
“Oh yes, please help me. I do feel so alone
and lonely and I so want to understand how I might be free of
shadows,” replied Shadowflower.
And so the Gardener beyond Time raised his hand
and drew a veil across the sun. Then the Garden of Time began
to spin and spin and spin. When the spinning slowed they had returned
to an earlier time. It was a time when in the life of Shadowflower
no shadows existed.
Shadowflower watched a scene unfold in her life
when she was much younger and so much happier, so much more in
the light. There she danced with other flowers and they all seemed
so happy. Then something changed. Something new came into the
Garden of Time. It was a new type of flower that no one had seen
before. It was the newly arrived creation of the Gardener beyond
Time.
All the little flowers stopped dancing and looked.
This new flower was very beautiful. It looked very different.
It smelled differently. It waved in the breeze differently and
it embraced the light in a different way. All this difference
was too much for the little flowers in the Garden of Time. They
began to feel afraid.
“See how beautiful she is,” said the
Gardener beyond Time to Shadowflower. “I created her for
my delight and for the delight of each of you. See how sensitive
she is to the light? Can you see how open and allowing she is
to my gift?” he enquired.
Shadowflower looked on remembering the arrival
of this new creation. This was the flower they called ‘Bright
Spirit.” She remembered how this new delight had danced
and danced. She remembered how the bees buzzed around her saying,
“We like you,” and how the birds sang their most beautiful
songs of celebration. She did not answer the question asked by
the Gardener beyond Time. She knew what was coming and she only
wanted to listen.
“Beloved of Creation, do you remember what
happened next?” enquired the Gardener beyond Time.
Shadowflower well remembered what happened next.
She did not reply but hung her head. It was the first time she
had ever glimpsed a shadow. She did not then know its name. Something
unseen came among her group of flowers and it made them feel cold
and made them shrink. At the remembrance, Shadowflower shivered.
“Yes, child,” said the Gardener beyond
Time," this was the first shadow. This is the beginning of
all other shadows. This is the shadow that in the Garden of Time
they call ‘Fear.’ No flower ever admits to shrinking
back from this shadow. This first shadow feeds on the fear of
other flowers and soon these flowers too fall out of the light
in the Garden of Time."
“I remember that first shadow,” said
Shadowflower. “It frightened me. I put away the memory of
it and went on living. I give birth to some very beautiful seedlings
but still I felt my heart shrink,” Shadowflower said as
she struggled to take a breath.
“Go on, Beloved of Creation,” encouraged
the Gardener beyond Time.
“Everyone told me how beautiful a flower I
was but still the light around me began to fade. Inside my heart
was shrinking,” she continued. “Then other shadows
began to creep around the light of my life. They had other names
and different colours but then one day I was more in shadow than
in the light.”
The Gardener beyond Time waited until she had come
to a natural break. Then he asked, “Do you remember what
happened next?”
Shadowflower did not want to remember. She started
to cry. This did not surprise her. She had cried so many times
when she was in shadow. What surprised her was that in the tear
that fell into the open petal she could see some light.
“That, Beloved of Creation,” advised
the Gardener beyond Time, “It’s a tear of compassion.
Put it to your mouth and taste it," he advised, “You
will find it tastes sweet as honey from the bee.”
Shadowflower looked at it and felt reconnected to
something that she felt she had lost forever.
The scene in the Garden of Time played on. “I
remember we all began to chant,” told Shadowflower. “It
was a chant I had never heard before. It was a chant that had
that first shadow in it and all we flowers seemed to get caught
up in it. It seemed to have a life of its own and it got faster
and faster,” explained Shadowflower. She came to a stop,
unable to say more.
“Do you remember what the chant was, Beloved
of Creation?” asked the Gardener beyond Time.
Of course Shadowflower remembered. The fear returned
and her breath began to lose its rhythm.
“Its OK, child, I am with you now. No one
is going to hurt you or judge or punish you. You have had enough
of that,” said the Gardener beyond Time reassuringly.
He waited until the flower became calmer.
“We chanted, Shrink her! Shrink her!,”
said Shadowflower. “It didn’t seem so very much at
the time but the flower called Bright Spirit shrunk away and became
smaller and smaller and smaller until she could hardly be seen,”
continued Shadowflower. Again she stopped.
The Gardener beyond Time waited. Then he asked, “What happened
next child?”
Shadowflower did not want to remember what she now
knew she had never forgotten. She had told no one. No one of the
group of little flowers ever told anyone. They had been asked
but each of the little flowers had lied. Each of the little flowers
was now coloured with the first shadow.
“You must say what happened next, child if
you are to be free of shadow,” advised the Gardener beyond
Time.
“I don’t want to,” cried the Shadowflower,
as she hung her head and her flower body shook with fear and guilt
at the remembering of the sorrow that she had never said.
“I know you don’t want to child but
trust me it is the only way to be free,” said the Gardener
beyond Time. He could make it easier for her but this would not
help. She was on the threshold of being free. This was the point
where all of his Beloved Creation came to. This made the heart
of the Gardener beyond Time ache. He loved each of his creations.
This is why it felt so wonderful when they allowed the light of
remembering into the cave of their heart.
“Say what you see, child,” encouraged
the Gardner.
“No, I can’t say it,” cried Shadowflower.
Again the Gardener beyond Time invited, “Say
what you see, child,”
This time there was no reply.
“I want to you say what you see, Beloved of
Creation,” commanded the Gardener of Creation with the sweetest
and most tender of voices that Shadowflower had ever heard.
She waited, took a deep breath and said, “I
see it bursting.” There was quiet.
“You saw what bursting, child?” asked
the Gardener beyond Time. There was quiet.
“Her heart,” replied Shadowflower, as
she broke down into deep deep sobbing that felt would make her
own heart would burst.
The Gardener of Time waited. It was over. The healing
could now begin. There had been light brought to the shadow that
had haunted this flower of creation since that time in time when
she had invoked the Law.
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Tony Cuckson 2009
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