The Movement of Life
There’s wisdom in the water.
Watch it long enough, and you’ll remember: everything is always moving. Even when it appears still, there is breath beneath the surface. A quiet rhythm that never truly stops. Just like you.
Even when sitting in stillness, the body continues its sacred work - breathing, pulsing, flowing. The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs rise and fall. There is motion, always. And within that motion, there is a space for presence.
We often hear the call to "be still," but maybe stillness isn’t about stopping. Maybe it’s about softening. About pausing just enough to feel - what’s alive, what’s stirring, what’s asking to be witnessed. Meditation is not the absence of movement; it’s the presence of awareness within it.
We don’t need to force silence. We don’t need to demand stillness from the spirit or the body, like asking a child to sit perfectly still when their soul is made to explore. The soul was never meant to be stagnant - it came to experience, to grow, to feel, to expand. So, of course it keeps moving… just like the rivers, the clouds, the winds, the stars.
Nature models it for us every day: gentle motion, graceful change, uninterrupted flow. Even the moon -so steady in the night sky - is always shifting shape. These mirrors around us remind us that change is natural. That we don’t need to fear the flow - we are made of it.
When we feel stuck, it’s not that movement has stopped - it’s that we’ve stopped allowing it. Sometimes we grip tightly to a thought, a belief, a pattern, because it feels safer than the unknown. The fear of letting go can be louder than the desire to grow. But even that is part of the path. There’s no right pace. No wrong way. Just the choice to move when ready - whether in a rush or with a single small breath.
And that’s the gift of being here.
Every day is an invitation: What will I choose? What am I ready to release? What am I ready to receive?
Some souls arrive with clear missions. Others wander their way into purpose. All of it is sacred. Every laugh, every tear, every lesson. When we bring joy, curiosity, and presence to our experience, everything changes.
If these words are landing for you, then you are already stepping into the next chapter of your path. You feel it. Something has stirred. You don’t need to know what it will look like. You don’t need to control how it arrives. You are safe right here, in this moment.
And from that place of inner safety, let yourself open - gently, joyfully - to the unknown.
With love,
Susan