The door is open...there are no hindrances...take in the aroma of the flowers...listen to the songs of the birds...beyond the doorway is a world in which you know no limits to your senses...
As you pass through the doorway, your heart leaps. You have never seen such splendor. No the streets are not gold as is mentioned of heaven...the pathway is of little tiny pebbles...pebbles by the millions...don't look down at your feet or you will get lost in the bits of tiny pieces of rock...
Looking around you...the lush green grass...the trees with outstretched arms with which to hold you...take you in to their world....your ears are filled with the choirs of the song birds...as a lovely butterfly flutters past your nose you gasp at its brief flitting and it is gone...the butterfly takes your mind to a freedom...
Looking upwards, the crystal blue sky captivates you...you are gone...your mind taken away by the space....you are that bird...wings soaring...gliding...eyes looking down on the earth below...observing the various movements...the breeze taking the leaves with its breath...they ruffle about....the squirrels hustling about trying to remember where they hid their foods...the babbling brook...lovely sparkling water cascading over smallish rocks...
Looking back around you...no longer having the birds eye view...you lie on the plush green grass...smiling inside your head you wonder what it would be like to make a grass angel...it wouldn't stick like a snow angel...but the thought brings a smile to your face...
Eyes closed...you take in the sounds...the trickling brook...the choruses of birds...the breeze filtering through the leaves....
A butterfly alights on your nose...tickling it and bringing you back to your reality...opening your eyes...gazing again at the crystal blue sky...you sit up...looking around...taking in a deep breath and exhaling...
Knowing that you must return to the reality beyond the doorway...hesitating...you stand slowly...walking on the plush grass back to the pebble pathway....you look at the brook...next time...next time you will dip your toes in the water...you will wiggle them on the small rocks in the brook...you will chase a squirrel up a tree...next time....you will have more time....more time to fully forget the world outside that doorway....
Walking, nearing the doorway....you turn back....you have so longed for this place...this quietness...the peacefulness....the door is always open to return....you face the door....taking steps toward it....you cross to the other side...turning back and poking your head through the doorway...you take in a deep breath...smiling you exhale...and turn from the doorway...
Yes! You will return to this place...this place of blessed aloneness...A place where your soul can come alive! The place that only you create! Next time you will return much sooner....Now you know how needed it is!
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