Sometimes we try too Hard!!

I'm going to relate a dream that I had many years ago and it hasn't grown old, I often repeat it to people when it seems to have relevance and shows the need to examine issues of our own self-importance. Maybe its just me but every time I tell it more seems to appear, by that I mean that I see deeper and find more meanings.

In the dream, I'm on a beautiful long beach, the tide is ebbing and as I stroll along the tidal pools catch my attention and I notice as the tide is receding, lots of little fish and animals are losing their lives. I see a can nearby and begin to go to the waters edge and collect water. I walk back to the nearby pools and pour the water in and head back for more water. Back and forth water to pool and back I go faster and faster as the water recedes further and further. I am getting exhausted and frustrated I realize I won't be able to save very many. I then stop and angrily look up to the sky and ask, What are you doing? Can't you see their dying? What are you doing?

Then the voice comes from the sky and says," You don't think I know what I'm doing!"

OOPS! Sorry about that!

Then I'm spoken to as a Parent who loves his son speaks to his son. He sees the good intentions of my wanting to save life when I see it being lost and reminds me in a gentle way; If we didn't lose life every minute of every day this world would soon be so filled with life in every shape and form that there would be no place to step.

I thanked him/her for this, I'm still thankful for this and today as I retell it I'm surprised again for I see even more in this little tale.

March 26, 1999

William Wereley