Between peace and joy

A woman found a folded sponge dried and compressed. Tucked inside the hardened fold was a message she'd been seeking. She carried the hardened sponge to the sea and, up to her waist in the deep, warm waters, she watched it unfold and come to life. Magically the secret of life became visible in the bubbles being released from the sponge, and to her amazement, a small fish asleep and trapped in the hardened sponge, came alive and swam out to sea.
The swimming of the little fish that had for so long been asleep~gave her a satisfaction that was somewhere between peace and joy.
Message: Take your sleeping heart in your hands and plunge it tenderly into the life you are living.