Let Things Flow

How often our struggles come from our attempt to make things go the way that we would like them to be. There is a saying that goes "let the water flow beneath the bridge." How often we attempt to stop the flow of water and make it flow somewhere else or flow a different way. This is a struggle to stop the flow of water. How often do we attempt to change others to meet our demands. How often do we attempt to make the circumstances of life meet our expectations, rather than just accepting this is the way the water is flowing. People will always follow there own inclinations and habits, you cannot change that. Since we cannot change a person and their personality, our best course of action is to accept people just as they are. Accept circumstance just as they are. The Bible gives us this wisdom:

Here's a piece of bad luck I've seen happen: A man hoards far more wealth than is good for him And then loses it all in a bad business deal. He fathered a child but hasn't a cent left to give him. He arrived naked from the womb of his mother; He'll leave in the same condition—with nothing. This is bad luck, for sure—naked he came, naked he went. So what was the point of working for a salary of smoke? All for a miserable life spent in the dark?
After looking at the way things are on this earth, here's what I've decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that's about it. That's the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what's given and delighting in the work. It's God's gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now. It's useless to brood over how long we might live.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-20

Notice the last two sentences: God deals out joy in the present - in the now! Since that is when God responds to us it is useless to worry and brood over the future of things and how to get things to flow and turn out as we would like. Allow things to happen as they need to today. Display patience in the traffic - you will get there when you need to. Display love towards others who may get on your nerves - they will give up there anger more quickly and you will never expereince your own anger. Display excitement and wonder over what is going to unfold this day - you will not be dissapointed and angered - only surprised and live in excited curiousity.

Namaste'