in the vast expanse before time was time, he came to meet a few soon to be souls that would eventually become part of his training ground. a training ground we would all ultimately be assigned to called "life". some he came to know intimately but others would come and go as needed... and it would be no different on earth. except that on earth, they would need to become reacquainted... as though it were for the first time. for his part, he became adept at "picking-up" who he'd been connected to but seldom, if ever, could he ever tell you the when and the where... he just knew... and so did apparently (in one way or another) the ones he had been connected with. he came to find that the real ones were unsought after, chance encounters... "happy accidents" if you will. sometimes there were subtle "signs" that he'd usually not consider strong enough to come to conclusions over but other times, "markers" would come in dreams and "other worldly" manifestations proving connection. what he'd decide to do about it was another story. he could pursue it or not. it all depended on where their hearts and circumstances were at the time of identification. meeting so many, from so many ranges in age and walks of life proved one thing for him: he must have spent a very long time in the expanse before being released onto his own training ground.
in the expanse, for him, there was always a co-mingling but most just stuck to the people within their purposed future categories. not for any other reason than simple gravity. like all celestial bodies, folk were pulled together "just because." in this place, there was no selfishness or ego. no games... just the freest flowing love you could possibly imagine. sharing moments of laughter, touch, feeling and care without any thought to agenda or ownership... it was just magic. what love was truly meant to embody. shared through friendship, family and even pair bondings that once tasted... were strong enough to make their way into the training grounds each would eventually come to be assigned to. the only issues they'd come to face usually had to do with who would be sent to ground first (as this would affect age) and what their training had the potential to create along the way (character wise). yet even among these issues, the pull of those bonds would somehow come to survive. even when the re-pairing was no longer a viable or wise thing to attempt.
sometimes this would manifest as a gravitation toward others that shared many of the same peripheral characteristics without even knowing they were doing so... surprising even themselves upon internal examination. honest attempts, that would eventually come to failure. a dance that would be repeated over and over again. all in the hopes of landing in that ever place of magic. where they came to learn that the existence of love shared among creation was pure, real and worthy of expedition... even upon the "tainted by counterfeit" training grounds we now call life. breathed into a passion to seek out connection to God and each other... spoken into our DNA before it even existed. articulating volumes of deep wisdom simplified into two commandments: "love God... and each other". "knowing" without knowing, that something beautiful existed and exists simply because we've "had it" without remembering ever having it. truly one of the most beautiful sonnets ever written into the fabric of creation.
as such, we that tread upon the jagged stones and the lilies of life will seek it and come to find it a few times over. what we decide to do upon finding it... is as yet another piece waiting to be written. and i know i have plenty of time...
don't mind me though... "imagination" is a hell of a thing ;-)
~moses apollo
