Four Elements Series: Pt. 4

We are water, we flow and flow. Of course I’ve always known the first piece to be true– as so much of this planet and our very bodies are composed of water. But the second part has come to both fascinate me and serve as a metric by which I measure all of life’s experiences.

Water can be a trickle, barely anything at all. Do we even count this as flow, when the water, when our progress and our faith seems to come and go?

Water can be an ocean, a tide, consuming us. This feels worrisome too, to be in the midst of it all, unsure of if the wave will push you to the surface or drag you under.

But then water can also be a lake, a river, the creek behind the bagel shop, the snowy slush still collecting on your windshield on Wyoming spring mornings.

Water can be a great many things, and none of them are good or bad, true or false, right or wrong. Because none of them last forever. None can transcend the existence we all face every day, which is that the present moment is all that there is.

But perhaps my favorite thing about water? It defies all logic. It makes life possible despite the odds of a volatile universe. It knows great power to wash away entire formations if only given persistence and time. It falls down from the sky and then somehow cycles its way back up there, again and again.

Moment of Gratitude: And then so must, so can, we. Transforming everyday. And forming no attachment to the state we were in the day before, the state we’ll be in tomorrow. We are water, we flow and flow.