In a dream last night, I was given a vision of each of us; every person, every animal, every living thing, represented as a drop of water. We know the Rumi quote:

This was a more of a journey, however…

It was as if the drop of water began it’s “life” in a cloud and I was able to witness the condensation process that brought enough weight to this drop to begin its descent to the earth. From there, it hovered on the dry ground briefly before soaking in. It was then taken up by the root system of grain that allowed a wheat berry to mature. The drop of water was then harvested in that crop (along with millions/trillions of other droplets!) into a combine and turned into feed. One very fortunate cow consumed that drop of water inside the grain and the drop toured through stomach, organs, veins and vessels until it became a component of milk in her udder. Once she was milked, our drop was trucked to a plant where it was spun, filtered, heated and bottled into commercial product. The journey continued to a grocery store where a woman purchased that bottle and brought it to her home. Our special water drop was then added to a cup of coffee and consumed by the purchaser’s husband. It then journeyed through his host’s organs and systems and took up residence in his skeletal muscle for a while. A few days later, our droplet was sweated out onto a yoga mat in heated practice. The tiny droplet evaporated up into the air and rode the wind… eventually joining its friends in a cumulous gathering something like a version of heaven. It had sentience and agency to live there or choose to incarnate into yet another adventure that would return it to our earth and maybe, eventually, to the ocean where it would complete its series of lives and lessons as a unique part of the whole and become One with the Universe.

I don’t dare try to explain this dream to anyone. I just view it as an illustration of the myriad of possibilities our lives can take and how limitless the expression of “us” can be between all the infinite options. ♥