9th April 2002 approx. 8.40 pm

The sands of a desert are made up of many individual grains and individually they cannot be perceived apart from the other grains. Yet, like a snowflake, each is unique and has it's own features even though the grain is too small for this to be discerned by the human eye. Each grain is collected with its brothers to form expanses of sand that can be perceived. Such it is with an individual life - it is but a grain in the sands of time, and yet when joined with many other lives it can become part of a vastness that is quite beyond human comprehension. This does not mean that each life individually is insignificant - it merely indicates the size of a life in the wider and greater order that governs us all. The grain of sand in the desert is part of a whole, and you in your lifetime are also part of a whole. The dunes may even be compared to many lives massing together in the more densely populated cities of the world. Each grain of sand has it's part in creating the dune and so it is that each life works with other lives to create and to build. The layers of sand in the desert are of the past; the life, like the grain of sand, can look down upon many ancestors - layers - in history. There is no beginning or end that is discernable; for if you were to dig downwards in the desert, more grains would replace those from the hole that you are digging. There are always more grains and the grains have always existed in one form or another. As you look at the sun shining on desert sands, it will seem to glow, with glinting lights from within. It is a beauty to behold. Such it is with each and every life - like the grains of sand they each have their own light and their own glow. In the day - in the light - the glow spreads and moves with ever-changing colours; the sand moves in ever-changing contours with each new day. It may appear to constantly change and grow - creating more colours and more beauty with every step you take on your spiritual pathway. So next time you brush the sand from your feet, remember that each grain is unique and think about how you can build with those around you to create the same beauty as those individual grains collecting together to create the beauty of the desert.

'Til we meet again...

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