Flow

Have you ever been in that place that everything just seemed to be conspiring to work to your advantage? You know what I am talking about right? Every situation, every person, and all that you encounter just seems to go well even when it probably should not. If you watched the Super Bowl this year, or if you have ever watched any kind of sports, you have seen it many times. When the Giants were going down the field on that last drive to score the winning touchdown, many things happened that were just amazing. One of these events was the quarterback, Manning, was able to escape a sure sack, which rarely happens for him. Not only was he able to escape a sure sack, he threw the ball down the field to one of his receivers that caught the ball with one hand. He not only caught it with one hand, but while getting hit by an opposing player held the ball with one hand against his helmet, completing the amazing play. This was one is a number of sychronistic events that led to the winning of the Super Bowl for the Giants.
We have all seen this in different sports. A baseball pitcher who just throws every pitch right and pitches a no hitter. A race car driver who wins race after race. A basketball player who just does not miss a shot for a long period of time. You have experienced it also. You ask one of these people in sports how they did that and their response will be something like "I was just in the zone, I can't really explain it, it just felt good." When they say this, and when you have felt this, it is like there is nothing that you can do to mess things up. Really you do not even think about mistakes your only focus is on how "good and right" this feels and your only focus becomes on success. Failure never enters our mind as an option.

Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. Romans 8:28

I wonder if we have ever have experience this in our spiritual lives? I am sure that we have had those times when things are syncrhonistic, that meaningful coincidences happen and we do not see these things as coincidences at all, but the flow of life that God has ordained. This is happening all the time. Many times though we do not recognize it because our focus in on the mistakes that we plan to make and how things will not work out. I am sure that if you asked Manning before he took the field for that last drive he would say that he knew he would lead his team to the winning touchdown. He would not have doubted. Do not doubt God today. Know that every detail in your life when you are connected to God in love, acting out God's image in you, is worked into something good. Allow your life to be in the flow of God's love. Do not go against the flow of the love of God and attempt to "swim up stream" as I like to say. This causes us to get tired, depressed, angry, and worn out seeing only that life is so hard. Actually life can be fun and joyful when we are in the flow of things.

Namaste'