Entering the River

"For the raindrop,

joy is in entering the river."

Sufi Prophet Ghalib

In his book, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING, Mark Nepo references how as children we feel a connection with all things, but as we continue to develop we begin to distinguish ourselves from our family, friends, and teachers.  Yet, we then do everything to fit in with our peers and once again make efforts to carve out our individuality.  For many years of our life, we carry one world inside and participate in yet another on the outside.  Eventually, we learn to integrate our inner spirit with our outer personality and yearn to become one with Divine Spirit.

The joy we experience during our lives is often times temporary and can be quite fleeting.  It can be said pleasure in manifesting things or events can never be everlasting.  The joy we create in our heart through sincere relationship with the Divine, can last an eternity.  

Mark Nepo shares, "In those moments of Oneness, we, as drops of spirit, join the larger river of spirit."  When we can readily embrace our connection with God and all things, we feel gathered, but also an important piece to the whole.  Completeness requires all of us to return to our center, to our Divine within who is the same Spirit throughout the world.  It is when we all join together in Oneness (not sameness), we create together the whole.  Individual raindrops entering the river.