The Rising Tide
My dear friend Carla shared a saying that her beloved dad often quoted:
The rising tide lifts all boats.
Perhaps The rising tide is akin to the awakened soul --
The boats being the temporal, beautiful and sacred
Aspects of everyday living..
One seems to have many boats within a lifetime…
Many at sea simultaneously…
Some boats sail with the ease of love shared
Others are set adrift with concerns, and insecurities…
Boats taking on water from overwhelm or grief
Others coasting with gratitude for life and lessons learned
Boats fuelled with anticipation for new adventures
The Rising tide lifts all boats
All boats are supported and carried along
on the living waters of liquid soul.
There is no judgment, no test of merit... no hierarchy.
All experience is honored for lessons learned…
And the sheer Courage of the journey.
And so it is
For when the soul arises –
when the dawning of our infinite Self resurrects
When the love of our very nature sings
When the still voice of God within is heard
And spoken into word…
The mighty waters rise and what we are carrying
Is brought into clear view..
perspective shifts …and a clarity of sight
Shines across the waters
The lighthouse of the heart guides and steadies
The faithful navigator
And the boats rise to see a new horizon.
Through the pristine lens of the heart we
Discern what is helpful, what is false,
What is ours to row and what is not for us to carry.
When the soul arises in its sovereignty
The ego finds its rightful place of service
And the good, the God in all, is revealed
In that magnificent realignment
If even for a moment…
For the tide also knows the wisdom of the sky
And follows the path of expansion and contraction.
There is opportunity in the rise and fall
that is not to be denied nor demeaned.
Being human is a holy gift for the soul
And the awakened soul is a holy
Gift for humanity.
The rising tide lifts all boats
We are one in the waters of Love.
In the end all boats will find safe harbor.
Their mission complete.
And our souls will rise to welcome
Us home.
May we grow to trust the tides
that move within the current of our lives
And may we remember...
Over and over again…
The love that is forever ours
– forever with us
Beneath the boats
of our very human lives.
