Sometimes I feel like the connection with my Higher Power is blocked. Sometimes the blockage is obvious, and sometimes it's not. It's much like a dam in the middle of a flowing river. I feel like I'm on one side and my Higher Power is on the other.

My way to clear the dam is to take a stick of dynamite and blow everything into splintered fragments. The problem with that approach is that the flow, the stream of connection, still isn't smooth. It's filled with the shrapnel of my approach. The logs aren't actually gone, they are just in smaller pieces.

A much more thorough way to clear the blockage is to be still and look for a loose log within the structure. Then, with the greatest of ease, I slide that log out and let it go. The flow becomes stronger. Then, once again, I become still. When I see the next loose log in the structure, I slide it out of place and let it go as well. One log at a time the dam comes down and the river flows uninhibited.

And the miraculous truth of it all is that, even when the connection (flow) feels blocked, I am never disconnected from "God." It's an impossibility. The disconnection is an illusion that can be taken down in a moment!

2.3.2023