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To Cling or To Flow...

by Joann Turner

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With all that is presently going on in the great matrix of life, I can safely say that you probably are either in Limbo...a state of waiting...or so much is happening around you, that your life has taken on a surrealistic quality.

As for me, my personal Spring into Summer time is incorporating both. A place where the new has not fully begun, but the awareness of its potential is causing a string of implosions all through my being...all through my life. The breaking down of that which was...to make room for that which can be.

Changes occurring in all of the basic four–– physical, mental, emotional and spiritual––tell me that this time offers a climax to astonishingly long years of preparation.
Areas where control lines were thought to be firmly in place...areas of my life that I KNEW...areas where I could make things happen and be fairly assured of their follow-though are quickly disappearing...lines of definition are becoming blurred...boundaries are being released.

In the entire world, each kingdom––animal, vegetable, mineral––are alive with possibility. The only question is, “Will you allow all that can be, to manifest in your life?” When you get out of your own way...When you clear your head and refuse to focus on all the negative ‘coulds’ and the ‘what if’s’...When you just walk through those doors which are presenting themselves to you...That is when you open yourself to the possibilities, letting go of the probabilities.

When will you allow that aliveness to fulfill itself in your life? If there is a “stuck” corner in your existence...it is coming up to be released or to cling to desperately in the face of this deluge, which will not be stilled.

I would like to share a favorite story, taken from Richard Bach’s, Illusions.

“Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all––young and old, rich and poor, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.

“Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current, what each had learned from birth.

“But one creature said at last, ‘I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die from boredom.

“The other creatures laughed and said, ‘Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!’

“But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.

“Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, ‘See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah come to save us all!’

“And the one carried in the current said, ‘I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.’

“But they cried the more, ‘Savior!’ all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour.”

When we let go of needing to judge all in our life as challenges and just become part of the flow...the process...we begin to see the gift in every moment...then all around us can relax and join with us, or cling...as is their choice.

Love & Blessings,

Joann Turner

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