Hi There!
So, sure enough, the old bromide has it right.
The only way to successfully navigate existence is to actually
" GO WITH THE FLOW."
Push the river of reality and we get swamped.
But, push the river of reality we do -
just find it hard to trust that the river knows what it's doing.
Well ( to continue the aquatic metaphor ),
the river is not an "it," but rather is
The Ultimate, Reality,The Lover's Flow,
and this Lover sure knows how to flow-go.
We certainly do well to allow ourselves to be blended into that life current.
Rather than try ( and surely fail ) to redirect Reality,
we can trust and jump in as The Lover's Flow happily immerse us
in the adventure of its unfolding.
All and every are included:
- personal relationships
- state craft
- striving for social and environmental justice
- raising children
- caring for the needy and the elderly
- discovering vocational currents
- farming or sell appliances
- discerning our next soul flow
- driving a bus
- creating new technologies
- developing new curriculum, or a novel recipe for shish kebab
- submerged in music.
The "rub " in life happens when
- governments
- corporations
- religions
- families
- political parties
- individuals
play god and try to force life's flow in a direction of their insistence.
That causes a "rub' that can rub out life, lots of it -
psychic, spiritual, emotional,relational, communal, environmental, all the way to planetary.
Why do we rub reality the wrong way?
Arrogance, stupidity, but more often than not, fear,
lack of trust, lack of faith that there is a
Lover flowing to fullness.
That is what spins us into chaos and peril.
Richard Rohr shares:
RIVER OF LOVE
I believe that faith might be precisely an ability to trust the river,
to trust the Flow and the Lover. It is a process that we don't have
to change, coerce, or improve, and is revealed in the notion of God as a
Trinitarian relationship that "flows" unguarded! We only need to allow
the Flow to flow - and through us. That takes immense confidence
in God's goodness, especially when we are hurting. Usually,
I can feel myself get panicky. I want to make things right, quickly.
I lose my ability to be present, and I go into my head and start obsessing.
I am by nature goal-oriented, as many of us are, trying to push
or even create the river - the river that is already flowing through me,
and in me (John 7:38-39).
So, here goes.
Let's flow,
Flow Full.
It's so good to be able to share together.
Thanks for your company!
See you next week.
In God's Dear Love,
John Frank
