A Night of Fireflies
Once Upon A Time in a nearby field there lived a swarm of summer fireflies. One by one they blinked and blinked away their happy flirty evenings. One day they came upon a lonely Spirit Being, dazed and wandering round and round a nearby diamond-barked tree.
“Help, please help," said Spirit Being. "I've lost my way and I’ve fallen out of favor from the seventh sphere. I have led so many lives already, yet here on earth I shall turn into another living being of flesh and blood and karma.”
Just then they heard a high pitched whirring squeal! What desperate straits could bow a string of air with such a cry of agony? Spirit Being and the swarming fireflies rushed and swirled toward the painful cries.
Caught! A colony of fireflies was caught in a web of life. Bringing all his strength into his wispy fingers, Spirit Being tore and tore at the web of life. Slowly he untangled one, then two and then a thousand fireflies.
“How can we repay you,” asked Queen Firefly.
"It’s all right, there is nothing you can do," said Spirit Being. "I am a lost Spirit Being who fell from favor, and I am destined to be trapped on Earth again in flesh and blood and Karma!”
And yet, that very night a thousand fireflies made a mushroom stairway up beyond the clouds and carried Spirit Being all the way to the seventh sphere. As each firefly said goodbye, it left a small dab of firefly light so Spirit Being would never again be lost and fall from favor.
Now on those summer evenings when a firefly draws too close to a dangerous web of life, a warning flash from the seventh sphere lights up another way.
