Row Your Boat

If life habitually seems very difficult and confusing to you, maybe it is because you are trying to row someone else’s boat. Maybe you are acting contrary to your own nature. Every human being has a nature that is theirs alone, just as every angel does. An angel of water never yearns to be an angel of air. Angels naturally trust the exquisite functioning of creation. All of nature is part of this perfect functioning. The sun rises to meet the sea, the moon rises to meet the stars—they never tremble in fear, wondering if they are welcome here, if it is okay to be as they are. The moon never longs to be the ocean. The moon is grateful for the ocean. The moon could never see itself without the constant reflection of the sea.