Post by STORMDANCER on Aug 5, 2011 18:58:47 GMT
A beautiful story.
One evening a young woman went alone to walk bare foot by the ocean after the sun had set. She stopped in her path and turned so she could see the footprints she had left in the sand, but they had already been washed away by the waves. When she turned to continue her walk she was startled by the presence of an old woman wrapped in a blanket who out of nowhere appeared to be sitting by a fire slowly paging the leaves of a leather covered book.
She walked up to the woman and asked:
'Where did you come from? I didn't see you here a moment ago, and how did you start this fire so quickly?'
Her questions went unanswered, but were met with a reply in a serene voice..
'Sit with me child I have something to show you.'
As the young woman sat down beside the fire the mysterious stranger handed her the book. She curiously turned the pages, one by one, and was amazed to discover they contained the story of her whole life from the early days of childhood to the present. She then came to the pages telling of her encounter with the old woman by the fire during her walk on the beach....but upon turning to the next page she found it empty. She frantically began to turn the rest of the pages in the book, only to find they too were all empty...In bewilderment she looked at the old woman and pleaded with her to explain..
' Does this mean my life ends this night?'
The old lady answered saying:
'No my child it means tonight your life begins!'
At that moment the old lady took the book into her own hands and began to tear at each of the pages with words, throwing them one by one into the fire until all that was left were blank pages. She handed the book of empty pages to the young woman.
'You see', she said, ' Just as the waves washed away your footsteps in the sand, your past life is forever gone, never to return. The only moment you ever truly possess is here and now. Each new moment is the begining of the rest of your life and is to be lived to the fullest for you will not have the chance to live that moment a second time. Most important of all each new day brings an opportunity to love one that may never come to you again. You are free to shape it as you wish for it has not yet been written.'
Then as mysteriously as she had appeared the old lady stood to walk away and dissapeared into the darkness of the night.
I think that there is a great message in this story...We dont always think of life this way but we have to make each moment count in our lives so that we can truly live a spiritual life.
Peace and Love
Storm xxxxxxx
One evening a young woman went alone to walk bare foot by the ocean after the sun had set. She stopped in her path and turned so she could see the footprints she had left in the sand, but they had already been washed away by the waves. When she turned to continue her walk she was startled by the presence of an old woman wrapped in a blanket who out of nowhere appeared to be sitting by a fire slowly paging the leaves of a leather covered book.
She walked up to the woman and asked:
'Where did you come from? I didn't see you here a moment ago, and how did you start this fire so quickly?'
Her questions went unanswered, but were met with a reply in a serene voice..
'Sit with me child I have something to show you.'
As the young woman sat down beside the fire the mysterious stranger handed her the book. She curiously turned the pages, one by one, and was amazed to discover they contained the story of her whole life from the early days of childhood to the present. She then came to the pages telling of her encounter with the old woman by the fire during her walk on the beach....but upon turning to the next page she found it empty. She frantically began to turn the rest of the pages in the book, only to find they too were all empty...In bewilderment she looked at the old woman and pleaded with her to explain..
' Does this mean my life ends this night?'
The old lady answered saying:
'No my child it means tonight your life begins!'
At that moment the old lady took the book into her own hands and began to tear at each of the pages with words, throwing them one by one into the fire until all that was left were blank pages. She handed the book of empty pages to the young woman.
'You see', she said, ' Just as the waves washed away your footsteps in the sand, your past life is forever gone, never to return. The only moment you ever truly possess is here and now. Each new moment is the begining of the rest of your life and is to be lived to the fullest for you will not have the chance to live that moment a second time. Most important of all each new day brings an opportunity to love one that may never come to you again. You are free to shape it as you wish for it has not yet been written.'
Then as mysteriously as she had appeared the old lady stood to walk away and dissapeared into the darkness of the night.
I think that there is a great message in this story...We dont always think of life this way but we have to make each moment count in our lives so that we can truly live a spiritual life.
Peace and Love
Storm xxxxxxx
