THE CHILD OF LIGHT

I had a dream once upon a time...it was vivid ,real, ethereal and beautiful. I wrote it down exactly as I dreamed it. 

                                          ……EVEN IN DARKNESS A LIGHT DAWNS…..

                                                                                      

In a place far away there was a kingdom. It was a secluded land tucked away by the sea.                                                                               The time came for a child to be born to the King and Queen.  The child was a girl. She was beautiful to behold and everyone who gazed at her was moved and loved her deeply. And they called her ‘Beloved’. The child grew and was adored by all in the kingdom Time passed and the Queen gave birth to another girl child.  She did not posses the physical beauty of her sister, but there were those who saw something special in her smile.  A light that came from deep within.                                                                                                                They called her ‘Devoted’ for as the two girls grew a bond formed, for the younger child was committed to her sister and admired her for all the qualities that she thought she did not have herself...  The Girls loved to play by the ocean collecting seashells.  They would laugh and giggle and Beloved would  tell her sister “the seashells will hold our secrets”  The girls would hide their shells full of secrets as the wind danced around them whispering in their ears SISTERS HAVE BUT  ONE HEART.  The girls grew in strength, beauty and grace.  When the third child was born the kingdom rejoiced for the child was a boy – an heir to the throne.  He was called ‘The Promise’ for he would fulfill the plans for the kingdoms future.  As the boy grew he longed to be with his sister’s, to be free and play at the ocean.  The boy would lean out of his window, and the wind would call him but the sound of the scholars sent to teach him drowned out the words of the wind that were blowing through his heart.  Time passed and the children grew- and it came to pass that Beloved fell in love with one of the Kings knights.  Although everyone else in the kingdom adored Beloved, the Knight did not return her feelings.  Beloved was so afflicted because no one had ever spurned her attention let alone her affection that she took to her bed and could not be comforted.  At the same time the Boy who was called the Promise heard another voice deep in his heart and was deeply conflicted.  Was he not the one to rule the Kingdom according to the plan that was set before him?  Yet he longed to journey to a far off place where the wind does not blow off the sea. He longed to be in a place where there was no pressure to fulfill a plan so great. That very evening when the moon was high in the sky above the sea, the boy jumped on his horse and left the kingdom. The wind blew trying to keep the boy from running away, but the boy was determined to follow his own way.  He rode hard until breathless he stopped at the line separating the kingdom from an unknown land. He dreamed of this land, a land that seemed to hold his unattainable happiness. But as his horse took that first step over the line he could not continue.  He did not know what to do and was doomed to cross back and forth over the border to the kingdom for he could not see the path to his destiny.  He had truly lost his way.   Back at the kingdom the people called out to the one they call ‘Devoted’. Along with the King and the Queen they cried out to her   where is The Promise, haven’t you found him and brought him back to us?  We need ‘Beloved’ haven’t you comforted her?  The girl carried her own pain but they could not see it, and she ran from their words but they chased her. They swirled around her and wove themselves together into a cloak of hurt, bitterness and resentment that she put on. The cloak was so heavy that it blocked the light that was deep inside the girl and she could not see her worth, for words are powerful things.   She ran to the ocean, to a small cave on a cliff where the two girls had hidden their seashells. She cried out to the wind in pain.  The wind carried her cry and an amazing thing happened.  The light that had been hidden burned so bright that it dissolved the cloak of hurt, bitterness and resentment and the one called ‘Devoted’ finally knew her worth and who she was and her soul was at peace.  The light flooded the kingdom and fell through the window on the one called ‘Beloved’ and it touched her heart and she knew she was completely loved and whole.  The light continued to the one called ‘The Promise’ who had lost his way. The wind called his name and the light energized his spirit and he saw his true path. And in that light he rode off to his destiny with confidence.                                               

........AND THE SAME WIND THAT CAME OFF THE SEA AND DANCED ON THE CLIFFS MOVES OVER THE LAND WHEREVER IT PLEASES.  SOMETIMES POWERFUL …SOMETIMES GENTLE BUT ALWAYS MOVING.  WHETHER IT IS THE MIGHTY OAK OR JUST ONE SINGLE BLADE OF GRASS AFTER IT PASSES YOU KNOW IT WAS THERE……

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