The River Never Misses The Ocean, It Always Gets There...

Loves,

This Morning I had a revelation after a prayer. Remember the book :The River and the Source? Lol neither do I... My era was Bassanio and Portia-Shakespeare.
I digress.

The river never misses the Ocean, it always gets there. I read that on my Social Media Time Line at 6:47 a.m after my prayer. Like a ton of bricks, that hit me. Hard:

1.We are all rivers.
2.We will get to our oceans.
3.What we do in the journey, is what counts.

Going through whatever I'm going through, I thought, 'But Lord, the river doesn't get abused along the way, the river doesn't give all she has' and a mental voice replied, 'Yes she does'
OMG She Fucking does. (Forgive me Jesus);

Along the way, she waters all she goes through. Along the way, her nutrients are driven to the banks hence the soil fertility at River banks (I just pictured yams and freaking arrow roots. What's wrong with me 😢) People fetch from her, She is literally, Life. We swim in her, we pee in her (don't lie ya'll do pee in large water bodies including basins) some even take dumps in her :(. In Mombasa, there's a garbage disposal area that's attached to the mouth of the ocean so, we also trash her.
See where I'm going with this?
In the Long Run, she still gets to her Ocean.

That's life.
That's MY Life.
That's YOUR life.
That's our journey.
The river: she gives and gives. And sometimes she takes. Sometimes she erodes and others she even takes lives. We all give, yes some more than others and we take as well, some more than others.
But if a river, goes through its journey through the violations and the cleansing as well, still makes it to the Ocean which is her Promised land, what about us... Humans.   We are not much different. We go through the seasons: Of Lack and Of Plenty, Of Abuse and Of Healing, Of Giving and Of Taking But with Patience and Faith and Vigilance at this Life, we shall make it to our oceans in one piece.

God is seeing us through the motions. Sometimes he intervenes and others, he doesn't. Rightfully so, as a Parent would. Our Journeys are just that. Journeys. We must never lose sight of the bigger picture. Our Promised Land. But we must also enjoy the ride and go through the motions. The motions are there for a purpose. The motions are there to bend us, making us flexible enough for this journey. God's grace, is the glue that keeps our waters together, that we don't forever lose our waterways, that we have that  bottomless faith in knowing we will, in the Long Run get to our Oceans.

Love,

Nyandia