These words of David in Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God” kept ringing inside my head as I was driving through Nyamweda, Mhondoro. I have driven through this rural beauty so many times before and as a matter of fact, I was born there. I had not realized how beautiful my place of birth was. It took a hiatus period of more than 10 years to realize this beauty. It’s funny how we ignore beautiful things around us just because we think anything exotic is better. This time around it was different. I fully appreciated the vegetation, the climbing rocks /hanging rocks, cactus and the native acacia species. This is a God given beauty; no human effort went into beautifying this largely undisturbed area. See the picture to the right how beauty comes out of it. I took this picture very close to the place of my birth. I could not help it but to rejoice for the natural beauty God has endowed my home.
Many times, we are so preoccupied by the cares of this life that we begin to ignore the beautiful and wonderful things surrounding us. As a matter of fact some of those things have been given to us for therapy but we miss it and look for therapy in what is not therapeutic. The familiar had to become unfamiliar for me to begin to enjoy and appreciate the nature’s beauty. A friend of mine after a trip to the Victoria Falls had intimated me that he had seen a hippopotamus and all he had to say was its beauty is in its ugliness. We have a lot of valuables around us that we have taken for granted and we treat those things like trash or in-valuables. At times it takes an outsider to come and alert us of the value around us.
The beauty that I saw in my native home is beyond comparison, especially after been stuck for a long time around the concrete and mortar of Boston. Unfortunately not everyone around me as we stopped to take pictures appreciated the beauty. Life is that way at times that a star shining so brilliantly bright is not seen by everyone. We know the story of the shepherds and Herod, and how the later did not see the star the shepherds had seen.
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