-“It’s like I did nothing, but I’m tired,” Oliver grumbled, grimaced, and sat down in the chair.
-Come on, Oliver, you’ve been doing one thing or another all day. You mowed the grass. You also weeded tomatoes in the greenhouse. In the evening you sprayed them. We went to the river. I cooked lunch, made jam. I read in the afternoon.
Do you think we should do something all the time without stopping? Yes, we are retired. We don’t work anymore, as if we have all day free. But you have to understand yourself, age takes its toll, we are not forty anymore, and not even fifty. Each age has its own. And here even the young will get tired, there are always a lot of things to do. You don’t think we are lazy, do you?
-Yes, Sabrina, I do, because I have a lot of things to do, and I don’t have time for anything! I’m trying for you! Who keeps telling me:
-Let’s build a second greenhouse, because cucumbers and tomatoes don’t grow well together.
Or another:
-A neighbor’s house has already been repaired, and we can not even paint our house. And the neighbor herself, while her house was being renovated, has already closed fifty jars of cucumbers. And we have only seven.
And just think, where do we need so many? Well, we do not eat so many cucumbers. We still have those jars of cucumbers from last year in the basement. And you keep buying fresh ones, as if we won’t get enough! In spring, we threw away so many old jams and pickles.
Well, where is it, what is it for? So we are fussing, spinning, we do not have time. And then you look – another day is wasted! So tomorrow morning we will get up early. And we will get down to business again. What a whirlwind! I am in a bad mood, I am dissatisfied with myself.
The mood of her husband was passed on to Sabrina. She went to bed, but could not sleep. It seems that her eyes are sticking together, and thoughts in her head are spinning, spinning, do not let her fall asleep. And there is a full moon. The moon peeked out from behind a cloud, it shines through the window, what a dream.
Sabrina turned on her side, her back to the window, from the moonlight. She looked, and in the corner, at the table, where the moonlight also reached a little bit, at their table… Two people were sitting!
-Good God, what is it?!
Sabrina wanted to move, or shout, but she can’t. She could only hear those two talking to each other.
Sabrina couldn’t believe her eyes.
-Okay, now let’s see. Two souls live here. Good, kind souls, but…
-Don’t drag it out, there’s still a lot of work to be done, tell me how they spent the day.
-Yes, he got up early at dawn to go to the toilet. Then he stood on the porch for a long time, admiring the dawn.
He admired the Lord’s creation. He listened to the early birds. Inhaled the air with indescribable pleasure, sweet, cool, morning…
-A plus point for that.
-Then he would do something in the afternoon and quietly sing the song. His soul was worried, responded at the same time.
-And for that – another plus.
-And in the evening he hugged her, tenderness, love radiated from his soul.
-This is another plus, but it is not much for a day. And her?
-She was also a fuss. Even a little jealousy.
-That’s a minus, and what else?
-She cried during the day, and her soul cried, purified. She pitied him, that she was not young, that he was sad. She cried for her neighbor with bright tears.
-This is also a plus.
-And when he hugged her, her soul responded, melted, radiated love in response, was happy.
-This is, of course, a plus. We can stay here with this. And there we will see, maybe they will be able to distract from the fuss and accept all the gifts that the Lord gives them.
The cloud again covered the night handsome, and the moonlight faded. Sabrina did not even notice how she fell asleep…
…In the morning at breakfast Sabrina Oliver wanted to tell about the night event. But she could not find the right words. It seemed to be neither a dream nor reality, and it was unclear what it was. And instead Sabrina suddenly said:
-Oliver, you haven’t played the guitar for a long time, you haven’t sung any songs.
-I don’t have time for guitar, I have a lot of things to do, – Oliver smiled, but the smile was a little sour.
-“Come on, what business, everything is fine. We tramp, we stomp, it’s all fuss. We don’t see the day. Let’s at least go for a walk in the afternoon to that field far away. We haven’t been there for ages. The grass there is uncut, wildflowers abound.
Oliver looked at Sabrina in surprise.
The most necessary things were done quickly. And when Sabrina was serving dinner, she suddenly heard Oliver playing the guitar from the room and singing a song, her favorite. And so her soul felt good!
In the evening there was a lush bouquet of wild flowers on the table. Sabrina and Oliver took a walk, drank tea with mint and thyme. Sabrina was sitting with embroidery, it had been a long time since she did her favorite thing.
-“Sabrina, look, the stars are bright, come to me, let’s stand outside,” Oliver called from the open veranda. Sabrina came out to her husband: “Oh, look, the star is flying, and the sky is high and dark.
-“Did you make a wish?” Oliver hugged his wife.
-“Yes, I did. Today is such a good, long day. It seems that the morning was a long time ago, and you?
-Me too…
-Well, I want us to have many days like this. When we don’t have to rush. When we can hold each other. And watch the clouds float by. And admire a flower – how this short-lived beauty, this colorful tenderness could appear from a bud!
-Wow, Sabrina, and I thought everything was bad, and you… You are still the same! And I thought you had only cucumbers on your mind!
-Oliver, leave me alone, will you?
-Great day, Sabrina, I wished the same thing as you, can you imagine? It’s been so long since I felt so good, so easy, so calm…
We become inattentive to what we see every day. And every day is so wonderful and unique. And happy will be the one who will be distracted from the bustle of the primordial. And will raise his eyes and look at the majestic beauty of the Creator’s plan.
