Water it seems, is a dedicated servant to so many.
As I pace my deck, which hovers over the North Branch of the Lamoille as it swells higher than I have seen in the six years I’ve owned this building, I speak aloud to my friend the river. I speak to understand, I speak to clarify, I speak to learn, & I speak to hear.
As I spoke to the river honoring it’s servitude to flow, to fall, to move toward the lowest point it can find, to be pushed by gravity, a soft voice reminds me that this flow is simply following it’s nature. It is not work, it is not effort, it is in fact effortless.
In my inner turmoil of the moment my intention had been to honor the dedication of the water to carve out it’s path, to move with bravado at this time of it’s pregnant move oceanward. But instead what I am reminded, by the voice of the river, is that flow is not forced, is not sought, it is not full of struggle, is not angry, or peaceful… it is simply the way of it’s very own nature.
Water speaks to me to remind me not to try so hard, not to struggle & fight my way to the ocean of the Divine, of my purpose. Water reminds me to flow naturally, effortlessly. At times we may feel overwhelmed and breach our banks, as is the case now in this watery part of the region, and at times we may flow peacefully and calm… but flow is there either way.
As Masura Emoto guided in prayer to honor and love water during the recent Fukishima disaster:
“The water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant,
we are sorry to make you suffer.
Please forgive us. We thank you, and we love you.”
I too align my gratitude for water this morning, who fills me with so much of my physical being, helps me move my emotion, and who reminds me in some moments that fill my life, to flow naturally. Though, sometimes with greater force will that nature play, or more gently as it should be for the time at hand, flow is the natural way to move.
Service is part of each of us. Water may serve gravity, may serve us in many ways, but one thing is sure, how it serves is it’s nature, and it does this with grace, as far as I can tell. Water “goes with the flow”.
I am grateful, Water Spirit, how you remind
me to serve and flow with my nature.
