For The River

There is a little book by John O'Donohue called "To Bless the Space Between Us".  I opened it this morning as I sometimes do, to see what message I would get.  It opened to "In Praise of Water".  One of the passages is:  "Let us bless the grace of water.....The courage of the river to continue, believe in the slow fall of ground, always falling further, toward the unseen ocean."  It goes on; there is more, and I stopped there.
The courage of the river to continue.  We can look at or remember the nature of our lives... that it is something that flows from beginning to end without really stopping.  Life is a lot like water that springs up and starts it's way down hill... moving around rocks and limbs and high places, seeking the way down, finding the easy route.  It takes courage to go where the flow is strongest.  That route holds the greatest potential for movement, and sometimes we just get tired and want to stop in the eddy.  We want to stop to rest, and the danger there is that we get stuck in the swirl, going round and around without forward movement.  Resting maybe, wondering what is beyond certainly.
Get back in the strongest flow, be courageous and welcome the adventure that is your life.  'Believe in the slow fall of ground' ahead of you; take that step, knowing it is leading you toward the 'unseen ocean' that is your life's true meaning.