EBB AND FLOW
Bad days do not always have to follow good days.
There is nothing too good that can’t or won’t last, and nothing too unlikely to happen in our favor.
There is no issue too impossible to resolve.
“This too shall pass” doesn’t have to apply to the good in life. To subscribe to this belief means always waiting for the other shoe to drop — to believe that the universe is not a friendly place, as proposed by Albert Einstein. It would mean that goodness is only for a limited time, to be rationed out in skimpy amounts by a stingy god who requires suffering as the cost of admission into the garden of good and plenty.
With that being the case, one would constantly feel the need to bargain with this god in order to receive “his” Grace. This in turn could lead to feelings of guilt for even thinking that way to being with.
Harboring this kind of guilt could only mean that one is not expressing gratitude — or enough of it.
And due to this assumed guilt, one would then have to believe that god thinks “he’s” being taken for granted. This can only lead to more guilt, plus the added bonus of the pulse-pounding fear that comes part and parcel with displeasing this now-angry god for the implied ingratitude. Because after all, that’s how bargaining with god allegedly works.
Then there’s ebb and flow.
Have you ever spent time observing the magnificence of the tides as they rise and then race towards the shore before receding back into the ocean, only to come rushing back in a matter of moments? It’s one wave after another, after another, with no end in sight. Almost as if there are no ebbs — just a continuous flow of waves crashing into the shoreline.
What if the ebb and flow of life is simply the smaller waves making headway for the even bigger ones to come flowing in? What if those moments in life that people tend to label as stuckness are really just the smaller, seemingly insignificant moments that are building up to the magnificence of flow? What if this is what’s really real? And if so, how had this gone unnoticed before?
