The flow

I appreciate these couple of different takes on the imagery of flowing river as it relates to spirituality:

Oswald Chambers compared the spiritual impact of a life to that of a flowing river. He observed, “A river touches places of which its source knows nothing.” And he encouraged Christians not to focus so much on where that river will eventually flow, but instead to focus on staying close to the source of our spiritual life.

And, I often need this reminder to go with the flow of the Spirit rather than my own effort:

"Don’t push the river; it will flow on its own.”

–Polish proverb