This post is the first of an experimental series I’m trying out. Every day or so, I will post a short description of a meditation that I received that morning. My meditations always have a lot of visual information, a lot of symbolism, and I will not even attempt to provide an interpretation; that isn’t the goal here for me. Instead, my hope is that you will be inspired to interpret the symbols in your own way, for your own life; that you will take meaning from it; and perhaps that you will be moved to meditate on these symbols yourself.

This is a complete experiment: I have no idea what the results will be! Please don’t hesitate to give me feedback — ideas, complaints, possible interpretations, etc. Have fun with it!

I was wandering along a dusty road at sunset. The road ran straight as an arrow toward a line of distant hills; the sun had just dropped below them, so the sand in the road and the tall dry grass on either side of it were all painted dusky purple. Marching along the road to my left was a line of tall wooden poles, like telephone poles without wires.

I had a sense of being watched; I looked off to the right, and saw a bison standing motionlessly a few dozen yards off, half-hidden by the grass.

The line of poles came to an end, and at the top of the last one was an iridescent translucent pearl-colored ball, about the size of a basketball. I shimmied up the pole and took the ball — it was so light and soft, I almost couldn’t feel it at all.

What is this? I wondered. The bison answered: This is the Pearl of Great Price. This is the Pearl of Purpose. A soul’s greatest gift, and the greatest gift you can give to another. It is Will, it is Freedom, it is Decision. Give it away — you will always have more. Hold it in your hand — it will bless your action. Hold it in your heart — keep it safe.