Recently we spent a weekend outside of Victoria up on a mountain. Besides the great people we went with, the beautiful house we stayed in and the wonderful views, there was water running down the mountain close by. Every morning when I went for my run to explore I would stop with my little camera and snap away at the beauty of this water. Having a camera has taught me that you can never "capture" beauty, you can only get a "piece" of a moment. With water it is even more pronounced as you watch it flow away no matter how trigger happy you are.
I had to try anyways. Do you ever have something that "calls" you? Water does to me. Not just any water. Water that is running, flowing, tinkling, rushing - water that is moving on calls my name and I respond. As soon as I can hear it I want to see it and now with the camera, I want to "capture" the movement.
I want what this water has. It is freely moving through the landscape. It meets up with others to run together to make something and it keeps on going. Change is constant and yet it keeps flowing freely. Sometimes it collects to hang out in a small pool until the one drop needed to make it overflow happens and the water is on the move again. It forever changes the landscape it passes through without stopping to make it "just right". The water nourishes as it runs along giving life to so many things without stopping for praise.
Maybe water knows it has this inner beauty, content to be a part of something bigger than itself. Maybe water knows it is here to serve and joyously runs along into every unknown with complete faith. Maybe it just "is" and doesn't need to contemplate the meaning at all.
And I think that's what I am meant to absorb. Meaning is only relevant in our minds. Meaning is our little universe which is only part of the whole and we have to leave our little "i" to flow with the life we are a part of. We need to joyously move into the unknown with faith and with utter abandonment. The thoughts we have are like the pictures I take with my camera -- it is just a "piece" and a "piece" that is immediately in the past. The beauty of our lives and all of creation is something we can't capture. Life is a verb - it is to be LIVED, one moment at a time.
I am going to be the water today, go with the flow and LIVE...
