As I slept last night I was delivered a dream of fancy. Because everything in my wide-awake world has slowed, my psyche has tempered to meet the rhythm. This dream carried me to a wonderful discovery…
“I was walking down a road that went on forever. There were fields of green on each side of the lane with workers tending to the crops. There was a distance between me and the workers in the field, yet I could see that they were happy. These workers, they smiled and waved but kept their distance.
My pace on the path was slow and deliberate, I surged forward and came upon a beautiful spring which fed the fields and made them fertile. I knelt at the water’s edge and asked for grace – the rays of sunshine fell down from the sky in ribbons of silvery light, and I knew God was listening. I collected all the grace that was delivered and stowed it in the hobo bag slung over my shoulder. There was a hole in the bottom of my satchel, and as I continued down the road, the grace I had collected sifted out and fell to the pavement as I walked. That was when I came upon a man dressed in a white suit. He addressed me as “babe” and in a low almost-inaudible voice he spoke the words, “…thank you for the grace you gave freely and unknowingly, I will pass it along.” And, then he walked away in the opposite direction.
I was tired from my trek thus far, so I rested on the side of the road under the shade of a mighty oak tree I found. As I day dreamed, the silence was lovely. No airplanes droning above, no vehicles racing the roads, no people chattering. I meditated and asked for wisdom in this unusual time. When I finished my mantra, I reached up to a low hanging branch and pulled myself up. As I rose, I felt immensely grateful and in that appreciative mindset, I knew it was time to say goodbye to the past; to let every hurt go and begin anew from that precise moment on.
The next stop on my journey was a lovely wishing well with lavish flowers at its base. I approached it and read the message written on a old and weathered board. It said, “Come drop your attitude down the shaft of this reservoir, you will not need it going forward.” And so, I striped off my ego and deposited it knowing my pilgrimage thus far was just made lighter. Here in a place where wishes reside, my heart heard the epistle. And, I felt enlightenment as I woke from the dream.”
We are in a new world now, we are all together, and we are all the same — every man, woman, son or daughter. We are conjoined in a new normal. Time to lay down any raised swords, or bring a halt to any precipitated silence between any one of us. Instead, the time is here to extend acceptance to the family and friends we love, and to the ones we haven’t loved as much as we could. (By the way, I did not say ‘should’ I said ‘could’ because should is a dangerous word.)
If you or any one you know is in dispute or struggling over anything — whether it big or small — now is the time. Let it go and encourage others to do the same. Let this new uncertain path that we are all on be graced with love instead of discord.
I wish you all peace and a dream of a new and better world.