What Water Can Do...

In Preparation of our WATER retreat...

Come with me now, down this garden path, and sit with me at this
stream. Watch how the water flows by. See how it flows over and
around the rocks. See how it flows even where there are obstacles;
even a dam of rocks, higher than the bed of the stream, cannot stop
the flow. It may hold back the water for a time, but eventually, the
water will prevail. It may rise up and flow over the top of the dam.
It may simply leave the banks of the stream, spread out and go around
the dam. Or it may find the weakness in the dam and through its
relentless pressure cause the dam to crumble as the water is let
loose to flow freely again.

This water is love, the source of all being. It is freedom and power,
unrelenting, unending. It overcomes all barriers which lie before it
through its unending flow.

But yet its pressure is gentle. For the rocks over which it flows, it
is soothing and purifying. For that which dwells within it and on the
banks along the side, it is a life giver, flowing and gentle. And
yet, when it is thwarted, as with the dam, it prevails through its
unrelenting nature.

There is nothing that you can do, nothing you can fail to do, that
will keep love from you. There is no blame you can place upon
yourself that will stop the flow of love in your life. Love is the
blood that flows in your veins, the breath the goes in and out of
your body. Love is an essential part of who you are. It cannot be
stopped. It cannot be overcome. And even if it is forced underground
for a time, still it flows and will again be made visible in your
life.

You are blameless before this love. You are not judged and found
wanting. You, exactly as you are right now, are deeply loved, are a
part of love, are made of love eternal.

You breathe and it flows. You live and it flows. You are love.

The life-giving source is within you and it is the foundation of your
freedom. The more you allow yourself to become one with the flow of
love, the more freedom you will experience in your life. The more you
give it away, the more it will flow in to fill you. The more you
acknowledge its presence within you, the more you will flow and glow
with love and freedom, going so deeply into the holy center of love
that you finally see and know and feel who you are: a shining beacon
of love and light in human form, as holy and free as anyone who has
ever walked the earth and ever will. You—yes, you—are the ultimate
expression of love.

The rocks of fear may pile up around you and in front of you, but you
are not those rocks. You are the flowing stream of love and you will
prevail over the barriers and watch them crumble and tumble before
you. Such is your power, the power of love.
~Quado by Carrie Hart