Twenty-six Letters ~

In that twilight state of sleep, I had a dream that felt more like having a thought with imagery ~

You’ve had them. They usually take place as we're dozing off-- almost a perfect picture of things that are on our mind mixed with fantasy.

In this dream the capitalized alphabet slid across the dark screen of my closed eyes. The letters were all the same font size, but came in a variety of colors. They were in no particular order and even though the string of letters began forming line after line on the blank page, not one word was spelling out. As the dream continued, more and more letters joined the string across the dark screen, filling in each blank space.

ADGZQXPYLBRW . . .

Some of the letters began forming a spiral funnel, like a slow moving dust devil, but then they too took their place in line.

Finally a thought entered my dream:

Every piece of work you’ve ever read has been created using those same twenty-six letters.

In that instant I knew that regardless of what language the story may have originally been written in, when I read it, when I enjoyed and learned from a written work, it was written using the same twenty-six letters.

It suddenly became eerie that tens of thousands of stories have been and are being told using the same twenty-six letters. I had known that, and yet inside that dream the depth of it awed me.

The dream seemed to shift its point. Without seeing anything except letters I became aware of thousands and thousands of hurting people who didn’t believe in themselves or their ability to rise above what had been dished out to them during their journey on this planet.

But I realized the miracle of the power and flexibility and exponential potential of those twenty-six letters inside each person’s life. The most amazing part about the twenty-six letters was the understanding that we all have those twenty-six letters inside of us. Those letters are the building blocks that can form words and understanding that lead us to find healing, hope, and forgiveness.