Reflections

I connect with my Higher Self and she stands before a pool of water. At first I think that it is shallow but then I can’t be sure and it could be endlessly deep water, all the way down to the source of eternal youth. She instructs me to look deep into the pool. When I look in the pool, I see many faces appear in the reflection. I see my own face as it appears to me now, I see myself in my earlier years, in my twenties, in college, in high school, and lots of versions of myself as a child and even a few as a baby. And then I see others’ faces appear, strangers, relatives, even deceased relatives like my grandmother and my grandfather. Everyone is smiling and contented. As I look in the pool of water, these reflections are a source of comfort. Why do I see so many faces? I ask. My Higher Self tells me to look more and I will find the answer myself. And so I do. And when I do, I see that these are the reflections of the soul bodies of all of my loved ones and even loved ones I’ve never met. There is no pain, hurt or sorrow in their twinkling eyes or smiling mouths because these are merely illusions meant to keep us from experiencing all of the pure joy and happiness that we may experience whenever we wish. This doesn’t always feel possible, I tell my Higher Self. This is OK too, she says. It doesn’t have to feel like pure joy and happiness all the time, but that is the stuff that your soul is made of, it is available to you to feel what you are made of at a moment’s notice or a moment’s glance. It is like looking at your reflection in a beautiful pool of water. Once the water stills and there are no more ripples upon the surface, you may see who you truly are. The pain, sorrow, emotional hurt and other feelings you find undesirable are merely ripples upon the surface. Nothing permanent, nothing embedded in your soul, for your soul is like water, it is fluid and beautiful and alive like water. It finds peace in stillness and in motion. It filters out undesirable debri effortlessly and kindly, letting the debri settle to the bottom until a storm or a stone or another disturbance comes along to stir things up. And when this does happen, this stirring up, there is no judgment on the water’s part. There simply is a process of settling that occurs with the water’s help. Sometimes this settling takes an instant if the disturbance was very minimal, sometimes this settling takes longer when the disturbance was more significant. But there is no judgement, no blame, no fault, just the acceptance that sometimes it takes longer to filter debri and calm the waters of one’s soul. And like a pool of water, if the water never runs, the pool experiences stagnation. So the pool invites disturbances and debri to come along and stir things up so that the cycle of life continues and keeps the water clean and cool and running. We are like that pool of water. Its easy to forget that these disturbances and debri we come into contact with were invited into our waters out of necessary ‘stirring things up’ to avoid stagnation and to promote even greater clarity and stillness once the filtering cycle is complete. We need not fear disturbances or debri, we need not invite more in than necessary, but we never need blame or think the disturbances to be anything other than simply an awareness that we have more filtering to do, in order to find the stillness that exists within us whenever we have clarity, peace and calm. We are Divine Loving Light. We are Divine Loving Light. We are Diving Loving Light. So be it.