Shallows and Deep

We all live through the cycles, the ebb and flow of our spiritual passions. We long and crave for meaning and substance but he truth of the matter is that we are a people that get distracted, too distracted. Life is heavy, and unrelenting in it’s day to day weight. I think it is the day to day that indeed does muddy the water and indeed puts us in our place a place of turbulence. We find no peace in the hectic driving pace of the day to day.

Life is like a river, and in it’s shallows you find the turbulence and the struggle of water crashing into rock. When my life is in the shallows is also when it seems to crash into the rest of the obstacles set before it. Yet in the deep there is room to move, even if you hit you can swirl around and have space to recover.

Our faith grows in the deep, it has room to move and swirl in the space. On the other hand faith is strengthened in the shallows the testing of what is true and what stays together. So the turbulence though in our weakness distracting is the source for affirmation; the furnace of life. Truth be told we need both one let’s us know of possibility the other let’s us know it’s real. Our problem is- we miss the point and settle for being distracted!