Walk On Water Day

If you are not care­ful, you will start to drown in your sched­ule. By default, you will let the for­mal and infor­mal demands on your time and your psy­che add up. Pay atten­tion. The major lib­er­a­tion sto­ries of the Bible (and reli­gious sto­ries of other traditions) include water and water analo­gies that address this. Noah’s flood is more than just the story of a man build­ing a boat. It is the story of every per­son that dis­cov­ers that the social waters of chaos are ris­ing. So, have you built an emotional/spiritual ark for your per­sonal sur­vival? You are not going to have time to build it later.

On which side of the Jor­dan do you live? Are you still wan­der­ing around in the deserts of your own empty thoughts and meth­ods? Have you found a “Promised Land” way of liv­ing? Is it any won­der that Jesus used a flood story to end his famous Ser­mon on the Mount? In short, he said that lis­ten­ing to him is like build­ing a hur­ri­cane proof house. There are other life storms ahead of you. Ten minute’s notice is not enough to actu­ally pre­pare for any dis­as­ter. Cat­a­clysmic events require daily prepa­ra­tion and vig­i­lant awareness.

Today is one of those days in which there is no way I can get all the things done that need to be accom­plished. The flood is headed my way, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve. First of all, most of the flood is imag­i­nary. Sec­ond, peo­ple can wait. No one is going to fall off the planet over me. Third, life is not accom­plished in a sin­gle day. Since life does not end here, it does not end in this day either. Get­ting per­spec­tive is my way of walk­ing on water. Some floods you do not fight — you tran­scend. Time to put on my “water san­dals” and walk right on through this day.