Making Life Sweet

Yesterday morning, I found myself sitting quietly with the honeybees. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that I was sitting with them in service to them. The longer I care for bees, the more I feel that they have adopted me rather than the other way around.

They are among my greatest teachers—true karma yogis—working tirelessly to make life sweet and to bring forth the fruits of the Earth with abundance and grace. To spend time in quiet ceremony with them, simply watching, listening, and participating in their world, is one of the greatest privileges of my life. They continually remind me what devotion looks like. They teach me about reciprocity. They teach me about living in symbiosis with all of life.