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Bright Space
Sharing
by Dane Allred
It takes a decision
To do something unselfish.
Giving of ourselves is a choice.
We are choosing to do something
For someone else when we could do something else.
Life is all about the choice.
We make one decision or another.
We don’t always know where the path will lead.
But helping someone else is almost never a bad decision.
One of the most sublime moments is when we can lose ourselves in the service of others.
When we get the chance to help others on their journey here
It’s part of our work as well as theirs.
We were once together in that Bright Space
Wondering what this place would be like
And if we would cross paths again.
We wanted to come here to experience our own life,
While all the world experiences their own reality.
But when we were together before,
We knew all there was to know
Sharing all knowledge and eternity.
But there came a time when we knew we would have to leave the Bright Space
And learn in the only way we could.
Apart and alone
Distant from those we once shared all with,
Wondering what that nagging familiarity really was,
When we see each other by chance.
Or is it by chance?
As the smallest particles of the universe spin
Influencing another small particle somewhere else
It is the same with us as we circle in the spheres
of human interaction
All around us.
My world intersects with yours
And your path crosses another.
Something you need to hear from someone else
May be waiting for you just around the next corner.
When we wander in this wonderful world.
Is it any coincidence we find those who
Think like us.
Act like we do.
Wonder like we do at the connection we feel from the first time we meet.
The first time we meet again for another time.
The next time that momentary recognition happens to you
Stop and help those we were with before.
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