ONE

One

by Mary Fahey

Recently, I found myself thinking about water. Although it takes many outward forms of clouds, rain, snow, mist, fog, streams, rivers and oceans, it still remains water. The chemical properties of all are H2O.  Does the fog say to the ocean, “I am different from you. We are not the same”? Does the snow think it is better than rain because it has more volume? The cloud becomes rain or snow. The rain falls, the snow melts and becomes a stream. The stream becomes a river and all flows to the sea. Water evaporates and becomes clouds and the process starts over again. All water returns to its source.

Like water, our individual forms take on different outward appearances; but our communal human spirit remains one. And like water, when our life on earth is finished, we will all return to our source - the oneness that we are.