“Sweetie, look at that ray of sunshine coming down through that cloud there, straight as an arrow. Look at how it’s lighting up the drops of water coming off the waves.”
“Oh, yes Granma, I see it! And those drops look like diamonds!”
“Yes, beautiful, aren’t they, the way they sparkle. I would say that’s magic. That’s the magic of the elementals, that’s what happens when the fire elementals in the ray of light play with the water elementals in the droplets. Sweetie, we’re lucky to see this magic today, what a gift! Not many people will notice such a moment as this.”
“Really?”
“Look about the beach, look at the people, how many do you think have noticed?”
“Ummm… most people are playing on the beach and not looking out to sea…oh look, Granma! There’s a lady over there, she’s looking out to sea, maybe she can see the diamonds!”
“Yes, and she’s got a lovely, peaceful smile on her face, maybe she can.”
“Granma, what do you think it’s like to be a water droplet coming off a wave?”
“Well, I expect it might be exhilarating.”
“What does that mean?”
“Let me see, it’s a word that packs in a lot of meaning. It means exciting, perhaps breathtaking, thrilling, something that’s inspiring. And also, I think it might feel a bit scary, you know, being so high and away from the sea, their home. See the way they spin high up into the air and then freefall back into the sea? For a few moments, it’s as though they’re getting a separate life of their own, not being part of the sea anymore. Just like you.”
“What do you mean, Granma, I’m not the sea.”
“Well dear, just like the water droplets, we belong to something so vast that we are not even aware we’re a part of it. And we’re experiencing the same exhilarating separation as the droplets when we live our lives.”
“Granma, I don’t know what you mean…?”
“Do you remember when we talked about how you’re mostly energy, and that you’re really like a pillar of light? And that you’ve chosen to become the person you are to live the life you’re experiencing?”
“Yes, I remember, you said I’m a divine being. So, you mean that living my life as a person is like being a droplet of water separated from the sea?”
“Yes! Exactly so! You got it, sweetheart. Think of it this way, do you ever feel like the you that exists inside yourself can ever truly express all of itself to anyone else?”
“I know what you mean, Granma! It’s like, nobody can understand how many thoughts I have and how many feelings I have and how much fun and happiness I can feel or how much hurt or sadness I can feel, that stuff just is impossible to explain properly, I’ve tried. You have to keep it to yourself. And I thought that, probably, everybody else must feel like that too. Probably, everybody is experiencing that same powerful feeling about themselves and we all don’t get to share very much of ourselves, really, do we, Granma?”
“Sweetie, you are wise for your years and I always said so. You are right. We’re all experiencing a deep and powerful involvement with ourselves inside. We simply can’t share that with anybody else, not to the depth that we feel it within ourselves. And that feeling is our ocean. That’s our divine nature. It just simply cannot be explained in words, so we can’t talk about it.”
“I’m confused, Granma, are you saying that we are the sea?”
“Our sea is the vastness that is the Creator, the divine source. It’s who we really are, just like the droplet of water’s a single droplet that’s really the vast sea. Look inside that droplet and what do you find?”
“Water.”
“Yes, water, exactly the same as the sea.”
“Granma, do you think the droplet is sad when it goes back in the sea and isn’t a droplet anymore?”
“Goodness, no! How could it possibly be sad to be home, to be the truth of itself? To be never feeling that sense of fear or separation. I like to think that droplet loves its moment in the air but is never happier than when its at home, being the sea.
But you gotta remember, sweetie, like us, that droplet is always only ever the sea anyway.”
amenet drago 