Be Water. Surrender. Flow with life and allow life to flow through you. Great thoughts, but perhaps easier said than done! Still, when I open to connecting with the sacred elements, Water is my element of choice. Water has the amazing properties. It fills whatever shaped container it finds itself within. Be it bowl or jug or cup; river, stream or lake, water reaches the edges, keeping the container as well filled as possible as its level can allow. But water is powerful. Over time it can change the course of rivers and streams. Simply the merest drop dripping out of a hillside can wear down the rock it falls on to, creating a dish where a thirsty bird of small animal might come to drink. Yes, water is powerful. It flows and continues flowing; maintaining its course despite blocks along its way. Water, over time, wears down or breaks apart even great boulders that get in the way. Water’s pers...
M.Ed., Counsellor, Spiritual Mentor, Teacher, Ritualist, Facilitator of Writing Circles