River of Life

Treatment by Ed Preston, RScP

 

From Flow, by Rev. Noel McInnis

 

When dropping down life’s rapids,

Froth and bubble into fragments if you must,

Knowing that the one of you now many 

Will just as many times be one again.

And when you’ve gone as far as you can go,

Quietly await your next beginning.

http://www.noelfrederickmcinnis.com/content/flow

 

I read this first about 25 years ago and I have read it again almost monthly, ever since then.

I have always recognized God in these words.  I see God as the writer, the reader, and the words themselves.  We are each individually Divine as we froth and bubble into the fragments of this life.

And over and over again, as we go through life’s rapids, one after another, for so many years, we learn that all the rapids are followed by softly flowing waters where we unify with God and with one another, in the soft flow of life itself.

As we rise above and look down on the River of Life, we see its beginning in the springs and creeks of life, and we see its ending in the Ocean of Being.  We come to realize we are molecules of Divinity as we rise from the ocean and rain down again to reappear through the springs of life, and flow again.

I am so grateful for the power of these words from Flow as I release them into the Law of my life and all our lives.  And, at my age, I gratefully await my next beginning.

And so, we release and let it flow.  And so it is.

Amen.

Treatment for August 9, 2016