by Adam Hart-Davis
A stone skims over the top and lands centered in a body of water. The ripples extend with each passing moment until they reach the watery edge. Every creature within has been affected by the rippling water…affected by the stone…affected by the hand that threw it.
Just like a body of water we have the capacity to be a medium. One stone thrown into our day can immediately affect not only us and our small circle of influence but it can immensely affect any and everyone around us. Creating a continuous momentum that can be lead back to one event.
The single hand throwing a stone is life. One can never be sure what life will throw at us. However we have the capacity to choose. We either allow the stone to cause a wonderful ripple effect of charity, happiness, love and good tidings or we use it as an excuse to perpetuate wrongs that have been done unto us, to seek revenge or to gloomily sulk around.
Focusing on the future and passing along a good or dwelling in the past and missing the opportunity at hand. Either path we choose we are a means of carrying a message. Our ripples have the ability to emit positivity and beauty, blessing others with their presence or they can simply be a disturbance unto others spreading negative energy. The choice is ours.
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Assalamu Alaikum
I have missed coming here and reading your entries. I enjoyed the creativity in this piece. It takes the reader on a journey and it is a very visual piece. You are right about the stone we throw and the effect it has on our environment.
Assalaamu ‘alaykum Teacher Tamara,
Very nice piece, and I really dig the title – what’s your ripple like? – mashaAllah!
I agree, we are mediums…the question we must ask is – a medium for what?
Wa laikum asalam TMC,
Thanks for coming back! There were two events that led to my posting this InshaAllah I will be posting a follow up soon discussing them! Keep rippling positivity and focusing forward!
T~T
Wa laikum Asalam HibahMac,
That’s exactly the point. We always have a choice. You can not control what life will send your way. However how you accept fate (which basically is Allah’s decree) and how you then turn around and pass it on to others is the true test.
T~T