I had an experience once that stayed with me…
I was sitting with a woman who was very close to the end of her life. Her body was shutting down… but there was also a kind of stillness in the room.
And in that space, I had a very clear inner vision.
I saw a young blonde girl… running through tall grass… with complete joyful, aliveness.
And I just knew—it was her.
Not as she was at the end… but as something essential about her. Something untouched.
And what struck me wasn’t just the beauty of it…
It was the contrast.
Because like many people, her life had been complex. There were things unfinished, parts of herself that hadn’t fully been lived or expressed.
And in that moment, it felt like I was seeing both truths at once—
who she had been… and who she had always been underneath it all.
And it made me realize…
That part of us—that aliveness, that freedom—doesn’t go away.
But the question is… how much of it do we actually allow ourselves to live while we’re here?
Jewel Lea Grant 