stillness

In my Friday post, I may have neglected to acknowledge the neccessity and healing attributes of still moments in life. And it is these moments of stillness that I find in meditation and a meditative life. In the river of life metaphor, these are times when you bail out the water in the bottom of the canoe, when you spread the gear out to dry in the sun, when you get off your knees and stretch your legs. Stillness has its place. But to fill one's life with stillness is to get off the river. I think I love the river too much to leave it.