Life Is a Flowing River

Sometimes life is like riding a wave. You are a surfer in life. You choose, yet it is not all your choice. You choose to plunge into the Ocean Deep, yet how big is a particular wave and how you ride is something you find out. Sometimes you ride a perfect wave, and sometimes you swallow water.

You might say that there is a foregone conclusion, and yet the conclusion is not a sure thing to you nor is it necessarily the conclusion you desire. From your perception, life is definitely not a sure thing. Where you will end up, nobody knows.

Yet in life, you don’t end up. There is no end to life, and there is no end to your life. Get in the habit of thinking that life is ever anew. You are ever anew. You are ever a pioneer. You are ever going down a path without knowing where you are or where the path leads. Perhaps this spells danger to you. What? Is safety the only desired aspect of life?

Life is a flowing river. When you set out, you don’t know the course or where it will take you. Inevitably, the river will take you to Me. This We know. How long paddling down the river will take, whether there are rapids or byways, you can only find out as you go along. There is no inevitable course or what you might call a safe course. Moving isn’t 100% safe. Staying still isn’t 100% safe either. You can take a-hold of your life, yet you can’t steer all of it in the direction you want. Life in the world is about not knowing. Life is not altogether in your command.

Life in the world is open-ended. There is no knowing what is behind each door. There is no certainty, yet you seem to keep hanging on to the idea of certainty as if what you wish for must be what you get. This way, you object to life as if it is under your control. Life is something that has to be taken as it comes. Once something has not happened, it hasn’t happened. Once something has happened, it has happened. What is there to discuss?

Beloveds, you can’t hit life over the head. It’s not your place to scold life. If it rains, it rains. No one is the Emperor of the World. No one. Even if someone carries the title and wears a crown, he has to accept life as it is. No matter what privileges an emperor may have, life will hold surprises for him as well as for you. Everyone will have nice surprises, big or little, and disappointments as well.

Everybody’s body will die. Nothing will stay the same, not for long. There is no court in the land where you can argue your case and have life changed retroactively.

What can change and what must change, are your opinions and ideas. There is a vast field, and you are to expand. You can change yourself, yes, you can. I will venture to say that you must. Go along with change. You will see your growth. You will catch up with yourself. You will get new bearings. You will progress. You will sing a new tune. You will beat a different drum. You will reach higher. You will have new dreams and desires. You will come closer to My dreams and desires for you. You will open wide the floodgates, and love will come rushing in and astound you. You will astound yourself. You will fly high. You will enter Vastness in your awareness. You will see beyond the limits of the world.

You were always unlimited. You are just finding out Who you are. You were always the Sun rising. Now you are at High Noon. You are a Sun that keeps rising and never sets. You are at the Peak of Life right now, as it is.

Here is the vista spread out before you. Look.