Sail On.
MORNING THOUGHTS☕️
Keith and I watched Eddie Murphy’s documentary on Netflix last week called “being Eddie”. One of the things he said I wanted to share with you.
He said that he operates like a sail boat, not a row boat.
In a row boat, you’re operating in your own strength. You’re sweating. You’re striving. You’re struggling to keep going.
In a sail boat, you’re looking for the W I N D and letting it move you gently and peacefully along.
It’s the most perfect visual of what it looks and feels like to live from striving (self) versus living from a posture of peace and rest (spirit).
And since I’m still in Deuteronomy, I’ll share the scripture that sums the same thing up perfectly.
It’s found in Deuteronomy 11.
The land they are about to enter is a land flowing with milk and honey…a land that God’s eyes are on 24/7 and where rain is plentiful (sailboat). It’s compared to the land they came from (Egypt) where they planted by hand, watered and tendered it themselves, and had to do it all on their own (rowboat).
And. It’s no mystery how to leave one and enter the other.
Obedience.
Obedience yields rest. It’s the key that will have you and me sitting on that sailboat unconcerned which way the wind is going to blow..just knowing we have to catch it and get into ITS flow in order to go.
Sail on.
xox.eb