Theme: Reincarnation

The cycle of life

- Celine, will you help me do the dishes, daughter? - Called Mrs. Mara.

- Ah, Mom! Can’t you call André? - Replied the girl, reluctantly.

- Your brother has helped with other tasks today. Let's wash together and we'll finish soon. I lather and you rinse! - The mother proposed.

The girl went. And the two were very close, doing the work, began to talk.

- How was school today? – Asked Mrs. Mara.

- All right - Celine replied briefly, since there was nothing special to discuss.

Celine opened the tap to start rinsing, and, watching the water fall, she remembered something interesting:

- We're learning something cool.

- Really? What? - encouraged Mrs. Mara.

Celine said:

- We are learning about the water cycle. The teacher explained that the water evaporates and goes to sky. When it collects a lot of water vapor there, it falls, in the form of rain, or snow, if it is very cold.

And it can fall on a land, in a lake, in a river, in the sea, in a plantation, anywhere! Then one day, by the heat of the sun or the wind, it evaporates again and rises once more to the sky completing the cycle.

- That's great - her mother said - These droplets that are now in your hand, rinsing our dishes, must have passed through this cycle many times and been in several other places.

- For sure! - Celine agreed. And changing her physiognomy, from the memory that came to her mind, she said almost angrily to the falling drops:

- I hope it wasn’t you who made me choke yesterday at the pool! Water poured into my nose. It was really bad, you hear me?

Mrs. Mara laughed, amused at the way her daughter rebuked the drops, and said:

- Do not be mad at them, Cely. Maybe it was them who were helping you to learn to swim. - And continued: Water is also very good when ends the thirst of people, animals, plants, when it cools from the heat, when it cleanses things...

- It is! But it can also leave someone cold if they get all wet in the cold. And it can go into people's homes in the floods and carry dirt, as the TV showed.

And, still addressing the drops of water, Celine continued:

- So, my friends, wherever you go, when you fall again with the rain down here, always be nice, all right? Do not take dirt or sickness to anyone. There are so many good things you can do! And nothing to enter people's noses, much less mine!

Mrs. Mara laughed again and changed the subject:

- Daughter, did you know that what you learned about the water cycle is very similar, in some points, with what I am also learning in my Spiritism course there in the Spirit Center? Our instructor explained that we are not just our body. Each of us is a spirit, which has been attached to a body while in forming. When the body dies, the spirit does not die, it only leaves life here on Earth and goes to the spirit world.

- But what does the spirit have to do with water? I don’t understand. - the girl asked.

The mother resumed:

- Calm down, I'll explain. The spirit, which has arrived there on the Spiritual Plane, can return to life on Earth by attaching itself to another body that is beginning to form within the belly of a woman. Then he or she is reborn, like a little baby, with another name and with another body, but it is the same spirit that he or she had lived before. This process of rebirth is called Reincarnation, and it is one of the main points of the Spirit Doctrine, which we are studying.

Celine, who was very smart, with this explanation, soon understood the similarity of which the mother spoke and interrupted her completing:

- Ah! Now I’ve understood! Drops always return to heaven by evaporation, and spirits always return to the spirit world when their bodies die. The water returns to Earth when it rains and the spirits return to Earth when they connect to another body. Then the spirits also have a cycle. Is that it, mama?

- That's right, my dear! The cycle of the spirit is like this. He or she is born on Earth, lives, leaves the body that has died, goes to the Spiritual Plane, reincarnates, is born, lives, returns to the spiritual life again, and so it goes on.

Mrs. Mara continued explaining:

- Droplets fall every time in one place, which may be quite different from what it had fallen before, is not it? Spirits can also reincarnate in different places and in bodies quite different from those they once had. Also, just as you asked for the drops to always do good, God also asks that we always do good things in every situation in our life, and try never to be a source of sadness for anyone. Thus, when we return to the spiritual world, we will have a happy passage through the Earth and take good advantage of the incarnation.

- That's right, mom! There are very similar things in the cycle of water and the cycle of the spirit. - agreed the daughter.

But the mother thoughtfully considered:

- Well, there are differences, too. The water is always the same, because it is a material substance. Spirits are not matter, so they are always changing for the better. Our reincarnation does not happen by chance, anywhere or in any body. It is planned so that we have experiences that help us learn, develop virtues and evolve. If we were to compare ourselves with the water, it is as if each cycle made us cleaner, a more purified water.

Washing the dishes together, the task didn’t last long, and realizing that the conversation was also ending, Celine concluded:

- Cool, I liked to know! So I think I'm already like a "purebred reincarnating" - Celine said cheerfully.

Her mother smiled and joked:

- Are you pure already? How nice! So, do you already know everything that exists and also only do good?

- I'm already pure and evolved for some things - replied the girl, returning the joke - but if Andre comes messing more dishes, I cannot guarantee anything.

- Then you'd better go playing soon - said the mother, smiling - because it looks like even the dishes have a cycle, and it starts quickly!

Translation:
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