Not All of the Ocean...

I've posted before about a sermon by Gary Sigler called The Fear of Deception in which he compares our relationship to God with a glass of water taken from the ocean.  In the sermon he says:

I like Stacy Wood's explanation. Stacy says it this way: “You know, the ocean is vast like God. And you can take a cup of water out of the ocean. And in that cup you have all that the ocean is. You have all of its substance. You have the chemicals. You have the elements. Everything of the ocean is in that cup, but that cup with the substance in that cup is not all of the ocean.” That is all we are saying today. We are not saying that as an individual we are the almighty El Elyon God who has created the universe. That is not what we are saying. What we are saying is, we are God in the sense that every thing that He is, His very substance, His life, His nature, His character, everything that He is, is now emanating from our being.

Keep that excerpt in mind when you read the following from a book called The Song of the Bird by Anthony de Mello.

~ The Salt Doll ~

A salt doll journeyed for thousands of miles over the land, until it finally came to the sea.  It was fascinated by this strange moving mass, quite unlike anything it had ever seen.

"Who are you?" said the salt doll to the sea.

The sea smilingly replied, "Come in and see." 

So the doll waded in. The farther it walked into the sea the more it dissolved, until there was only very little of it left.  Before the last bit dissolved, the doll exclaimed in wonder, "Now I know who I am!"
~ Anthony de Mello
in  "The Song of the Bird"