My friend said that she could listen to water flowing all day and I nodded in agreement. But as we walked a bit further along I thought about how mixed up and filled up my head and heart were and this led me to think of how much striving I was doing in my life. I was (and am) running to stand still.

As I was thinking this a quiet voice from within said “A river does not struggle to get to the sea.” I shared this with my friend and she said that it was pretty profound and deep in an native American way. If God who thinks about us much more than He does a sparrow, who never goes wanting do we struggle uphill to nowhere?

Maybe if we could find the valley of the Lord we could just flow to Him without effort.

Originally posted on http://tairngir.tumblr.com/page/97

Aug 12 2008