Go with the Flow!

I recently visited a family cabin of one of my dear friends. It was in a beautiful mountain setting. Everything was blooming and lush. In the background we could hear the sound of water. Not a little or small amount of water, but a large stream, swollen with the water from spring runoff. Pictured is the beautiful stream. I could sit there for hours watching and listening. The stream went under the road, through a big pipe. Once in a while we would hear a rock being forced through the pipe by the current. It was powerful. 

My whole life, it seems, I've heard the phrase, 

"Go with the flow."

What does it mean? To me it means whatever life gives you, be your best. Life will be rough and tumble sometimes, and other times things will be going so good, that you fear for the bubble to pop. But no matter what happens in life. We are in charge of how we feel. In the middle of hardship, we can have gratitude. In the middle of calm, we can feel peace. In whatever circumstances that life gives us, we can "Go with the flow!"

 I thought about this stream and how at certain times it might be hard, even dangerous to 

"Go with the flow."

 In the stream of life, we are not always in charge of how fast the flow is, or how slow the flow is. Just like this stream, there are outside forces determining the flow. When the stream is swollen with the spring runoff, it can be a messy place. There is debris all along the way. But when the runoff is over, the stream is a very peaceful and calm place. 

"Go with the flow!"

 If things are moving fast, and they get kinda messy...

"Go with the flow!"

 If life has slowed down and you long for more excitement...

"Go with the flow!"

 Sometimes life has a way of telling us what we need. If we get going so fast and crazy, we get sick and then we are forced to slow down. The shrubs around the stream sure got a pounding from the water flowing by. But when the water calms down. They will get a brake from the turbulence. 

I wonder if Father in heaven is up there saying to us, 

"Go with the flow! You can do it!"?

Don't you just love nature. It really gets me thinking. When I am there...with God's creations, I know He loves us. He wants us to be happy. He wants us to learn and grow, and sometimes the "flow" is like a spring runoff, and sometimes it's like a peaceful trickling brook. 

"Go with the flow!" Love, Joy