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Stuck in the Rocks
Imagine you are in a stream, floating…or sailing in a small boat.
It’s just you, but there are others around you. The water is flowing, carrying you from one place to the next, sometimes smooth and easy. At other parts the current is fast and storms are blustering around you, threatening to capsize and overwhelm you. In some areas of the stream you have to swim or paddle hard to get where you’re going. Other parts just flow.
On occasion, surrounding the rapids there are rocks in the stream. Big boulders or jagged bits that might rip your swimsuit or poke a hole in your watercraft.
It’s impossible to avoid them. Let’s call those rocks “guilt.”
Let’s call their potentially hazardous consequences, like the ripped suit or the compromised kayak, “shame.”
Everyone hits the rocks at some point. Perhaps you’ve been in a season of rocky coastline or the parched land has made the water level so low that it seems everywhere you turn are bumpy parts to slow you down.
One piece of sailing wisdom:
Don’t get stuck in the rocks.
Guilt is unavoidable. You will mess up along the way. Water is a mysterious environment with lots of threats to your survival. Remember Odysseus? It took him 10 years to make the journey home that should…
