"The Master" by Brigit Kephart

I sat pondering nothing.  I sit pondering nothing, much.

A great master came before me and said, “Come.”  We were suddenly beside a pond and he turned to me and asked, “You, what do you see?”

“Here,” I asked “In the water?”  I knelt and peered intently then I smiled.  “I see life,” I said.  “I see water, and I see the sky, I see myself and I see God.  I see joy and I see serenity.”

I looked at him wondering, had I passed?  Was this a test?

A single drop of water rose up from the pond and suspended in the air.

The Great Master asked again, “And what do you see here?”

I looked at the suspended drop of water and the rainbows that sprang from within it, refracting the suns light and as I gazed into it, I feel into it and was lost for days.

When I blinked I was once again beside the great master and I smiled.  “I see a myriad of worlds,” I answered softly.

Then the drop appeared on my master’s face and rolled from his eye as a bright light filled the space between us and I was once again falling into his tear and becoming lost in another world.