There is a Current
There is a current.
It may seem impossible to feel. Especially when life seems chaotic.
When life seems chaotic, parts of us spring into action. Other parts of us hide. Other parts of us get angry. All of these parts are bracing against—trying to change what is in order to feel safe. We just want to know that everything's going to be okay.
Everything is going to be okay.
But not because you spring into action. Or hide. Or get angry. It will be okay because there is a current.
Let yourself really hear that sentence: everything is going to be okay. Can you feel the way that, as you consider that everything will be okay, you start to relax?
You're physically moving away from "make it happen," toward trust. Not conceptual trust, but embodied trust. That's faith.
This is the kind of faith that moves mountains. Not through force, but by letting go, and realizing that the mountains are already being moved.
When we're braced for action, or hiding, or fighting—when our muscles are tight—we can't feel the existing movement. We're blocked from it. When we relax and trust, we can feel it.
Faith, at its core, is a posture that allows life's movement to be felt. It's the scariest feeling because it means letting go of control... but we never were in control of the movement of life—only of our receptivity to it.
When we let go, we receive life's movement. The cost is our sense of being in control. But what a good trade. Not only do we get the wonderful feeling of finally being at rest, but we realize that it was never up to us to move life along.
And the most beautiful part—when we loosen our grip, we don't only get to enjoy the feeling of being carried by life; we become the conduit through which life can flow.
Take a moment right now. Physically feel it. Everything is going to be okay. There is a current. It's always there. We can trust it.