Life has a way of wearing away at you, the way a river wears away at its banks. It’s easy to feel like it’s our job to resist at all costs. It seems right to remain strong, to hold ourselves rigid against all that comes, and all that tries to break us down. Inevitably though, we break down. We’re human after all … not granite. All those grains of sand and pieces of dirt that made up the river bank are lost forever. Washed away never to be seen again. We fear loosing everything we use to identify who we are. So, we gather our strength, look for hope, and weather on. That mode of thinking produces a life of struggle and of hardship. We fail to consider the wonderful amazing journey that is possible if we just let go. We fail to believe there is more to ourselves than everything we have surrounded ourselves with. What would happen if we let go? What would happen if we put our energies into minor course corrections as we flowed with life? Who would we become if our identity was defined by our journey and not our hardships?

– jeff