Pulling Your Own Weight

May 31, 2009

Dear Friends,

A while back, a gentleman I know described a day when he was really “in the flow.” He told me how every single step that needed to be taken, was taken for him by an “Earth Angel.” He said he didn’t have to do much of anything to accomplish his goals for the day. Every desire was fulfilled divinely and effortlessly.

As I delved deeper into his story, however, I discovered that, in truth, his “angels” were simply friends and family members who were taking on responsibilities that were actually—as far as I could tell—his to take. He wasn’t pulling his own weight, so they pulled it for him.

Obviously, friends, living life in the divine flow is not about sitting in your boat and expecting other people to do all the rowing. Living life in the divine flow is about taking the steps that are yours to take. And there’s rarely a reason not to take those steps . . . because the kind of steps that the divine flow asks you to take are generally right in front of you and relatively easy to do.

Does that mean that you should never ask for help, and that you have to handle every single problem that comes along all by yourself? Of course not. When you genuinely need assistance in life, an “angel of the flow”—a helpful person that you know or don’t know—will be divinely directed to come to your aid. And there will always be plenty of things that the divine flow is handling on your behalf that you don’t even know about.

But all of that is quite different from one person feeling compelled to take up the slack caused by another person’s lack of action.

May we all have the kind of wisdom it takes to know what is truly ours to do in life . . . and not do. May we all have the kind awareness it takes to row our boats responsibly down the stream . . . as well as gently.

Steven

© 2009 by Steven Lane Taylor
Author of Row, Row, Row Your Boat:
A Guide for Living Life in the Divine Flow
www.rowrowrow.com