Reflections...

What's Your Ripple Like ?

by Tamara Redfern

photo credit 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 you have the capacity to be a medium. One stone thrown into your day can immediately affect not only your small circle of influence but it can immensely affect anything and everyone around you. Creating a continuous momentum that can be traced back to one event.

The single hand throwing a stone is life. You are the water. You can never be sure what life will throw at you. However, you have the capacity to choose. You can allow the stone to cause a wonderful ripple effect of charity, happiness, love and good tidings or you can use it as an excuse to perpetuate wrongs seeking revenge and gloomily sulking around in self -pity.

Focus on the future and pass along a good or dwell in the past and miss the opportunity at hand. Whichever path you choose YOU are a means of carrying a message. Your 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. Either way the choice is yours.