One of my favorite “Being Stories” is the tale about the waterfall and the elderly man. As my memory remembers it, it goes
roughly something like this…..
There was a very tall and powerful waterfall in the village, and people often went to observe its awesome beauty and listen
to the rushing water. One afternoon, several people were gathered along the banks of the river at the base of the waterfall.
Someone saw an elderly man standing at the top of the falls and then fall over the edge. Everyone started to panic. People
were screaming for help and running in all different directions trying to figure out what they could do, when someone
spotted the man crawling up the bank of the river bed onto dry land. Everyone rushed over to him, shocked and demanding
to know how he could have survived such a fall from such great heights and not be drowned by the powerful force of all that
water coming down on top of him. The man calmly spoke as he began to walk away, “The water constantly falls from the
edge, comes down, goes under, and comes up again, to rejoin the river’s flow. I just became like the water…..”
A few years ago I decided to let go and jump into the rivers of Universal Flow. However, I must admit that there are times
when I fall under the illusion of separation from Divine Source and find myself kicking and struggling to stay afloat on the
seemingly turbulent waters of life.
Well, it was just one of those times. I worried how rent was going to come, how to keep the gas turned on, how to keep
myself and those lives I was a provider for from the feeling the pangs of hunger too deeply…. And of course when one falls
into the pits of fear, it can be a dark, and very deep hole whose walls seem kinda slippery to climb up and out of.
So I stopped struggling, and listened to my heart.
I sat. I became still. I reconnected. I released all those illusions of separation that come in the forms of fear, worry, anxiety,
doubt, apprehension, etc.
And I was carried once again effortlessly upon the buoyant waters of Divine Flow…..
And then…
I painted.
roughly something like this…..
There was a very tall and powerful waterfall in the village, and people often went to observe its awesome beauty and listen
to the rushing water. One afternoon, several people were gathered along the banks of the river at the base of the waterfall.
Someone saw an elderly man standing at the top of the falls and then fall over the edge. Everyone started to panic. People
were screaming for help and running in all different directions trying to figure out what they could do, when someone
spotted the man crawling up the bank of the river bed onto dry land. Everyone rushed over to him, shocked and demanding
to know how he could have survived such a fall from such great heights and not be drowned by the powerful force of all that
water coming down on top of him. The man calmly spoke as he began to walk away, “The water constantly falls from the
edge, comes down, goes under, and comes up again, to rejoin the river’s flow. I just became like the water…..”
A few years ago I decided to let go and jump into the rivers of Universal Flow. However, I must admit that there are times
when I fall under the illusion of separation from Divine Source and find myself kicking and struggling to stay afloat on the
seemingly turbulent waters of life.
Well, it was just one of those times. I worried how rent was going to come, how to keep the gas turned on, how to keep
myself and those lives I was a provider for from the feeling the pangs of hunger too deeply…. And of course when one falls
into the pits of fear, it can be a dark, and very deep hole whose walls seem kinda slippery to climb up and out of.
So I stopped struggling, and listened to my heart.
I sat. I became still. I reconnected. I released all those illusions of separation that come in the forms of fear, worry, anxiety,
doubt, apprehension, etc.
And I was carried once again effortlessly upon the buoyant waters of Divine Flow…..
And then…
I painted.
Falling to Tranquility, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 36
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