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Take what your hands can carry

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A few afternoons ago I was working in Esoteric Gardens when a lady passed by and asked if there were any fruits for sale (she had spied some on a table near the fence). I smiled and responded no but she was welcomed to a few of what we had already picked. A helper in the garden quickly offered to get her a plastic bag. My response was. “No, let her take what her hands can carry.”
My reason for this was two-fold. Firstly, I prefer and promote the use of reusable bags to plastics and secondly, the lady would have taken most if not all of the fruits, not leaving for someone else. Us humans, we often let our lack mentality dominate our true nature of giving and sharing. She happily filled both hands, and tucking a couple more in her shirt, smiled, said thanks, and left. I laughed out loud because I knew she would have taken more than her hands could carry.

Sometimes we just need to simply take what our hands can carry, whether it is good, as in free fruits or bad, as in trouble and worries. Elders in my community liked to say, “take little and live long”.

Take just a little of life’s stress and problems.
Not pack life’s difficulties and anxieties on our shoulders and backs and still tuck some in the front of our shirt for good measure.

Take just a little and leave the rest for the Universe.