The Candle

The candle, seemingly solid and unchanging until lit. 

Add a little fire and everything changes. Now the candle gives us light and warmth.

The wooden wick that was once a tree, now supports the flame, but without the wax, would flare and be very short-lived. The wax, which supports the wick and the flame, was once a soy plant supported by the earth, the sun, and the rain. 

Everything changes, experiencing different ways of being, like yourself, like everyone. We can try to stay the same, like the unlit candle, but we could be missing out on so much.... the flame, the free form of the melted wax, the opportunity to be the wax, or the wick, or the flame, to give and receive light and warmth and support.

Nothing ever stays the same. You can choose to struggle against the flow of change or you can choose and experience change in the highest way that is that is available to you. Just say yes to the choice and the opportunity to be in the flow of experience for your good and the good of all.