"Our gift today is one of clarity. Look as if into a clear pool of water. What do you see? Smooth rocks on the bottom? A fish of many colors taking morsels from between the stones? Notice your reflection as you change your perspective. The ripples are evident on the surface and yet you still see your face clearly with eyes, nose, mouth, and rosy cheeks. What do you make of this? A story about perspective? No. Look deeper. A story about Self.

"Your nature is deep. Some things lie on the surface and others with the stones in the depths. What is in between? This is where your journey takes place. This is the place of motion and currents...action and reaction…choices. Transformation here reflects into the depths and onto the surface.

"There is a place you can go where the messages are clear. If there is much current in the water, clarity is difficult. Your reflection is cloudy and the depths remain a mystery. Clarity is essential for life-giving promises. The promises of peace, tranquility, graceful transitions, and words of hope when the heart speaks. Is this what you want? Clarity? If it is, join me in this prayer for clarity. Speak it aloud as your heart fills the words with passion: 'My Soul is bright and radiant. My peace is a gift, and I wear it proudly. My joy is to see the beauty in all things around me. My love is the grace given me by my Self. '

"Pray this prayer for seven days. Make it a part of your vibration. As you vibrate with the colors of these words, you will begin to see the depths and the surface of your Self with clarity."
 
 
"Free will choice is allowed in order that you may see yourself, like in a mirror, and know who you are and who you are not...who you wish to be or not to be...to know light and dark and know all things as the Creator. The message here for all who will listen is LOVE. Love is the sum total of your experiences in choice. Remain in love through all your choices, whether on a lighted path or walking on a dark one. Instead of judgement, you receive mercy, and all wisdom becomes known to you. There is no place for pity or deservedness. Neither fits this puzzle. Learn and grow in a space of Love, and all paths are accepted as good. Good always comes out of the experience in the end. You would ask, 'What about death? What about torture,chaos, and fear?' Your choice to experience these things is one of curiosity. Who am I when I am faced with this? Who am I when I am this? You again look in a mirror and see the reflection of the giver and the receiver learning all there is to know about love, compassion, mercy, and gratefulness." 
 
 
During meditation, I was reminded of a story I heard a while ago.  A blind man felt the trunk of an elephant and thought it was the whole elephant.  Another blind man felt the leg of the elephant and thought it was the whole elephant.  They argued back and forth regarding the sincere truth of their discoveries and yet neither could see the whole picture because they were blind.  My inner teacher commented,"Consider this concept when you speak to others and others speak with you.  What is seen in your world is most definitely true for you.  It is what it is, but it may not be ALL there is.  There is no use arguing because both have truth from a different perspective.  One day when looking from above with eyes open, one will see."