andi oakes

Sitting in a hotel looking out over Falmouth harbour, across to the village where my Mother's family originate, I have just noticed something that has never before occurred to me in all the trips that I have had to this most wonderful of destinations.

It's a calm evening with not even a hint of a breeze moving the air, giving the water in the harbour a glassy appearance, reflecting almost perfectly each of the eclectic gathering of maritime vessels dotted around this history filled haven from the sea.  And it was while I was staring somewhat absent mindedly at the tranquil scene laid out before me that something slowly began to dawn on me: all the yachts and boats in the harbour were pointing in exactly the same direction...without exception.

 

Up until today, I had never really paid that much attention to what way boats, yachts and ships would point.  I assumed it was something quite random, but looking at the scene before me now, I'm changing my opinion because there is obviously something more going on that I had previously been unaware of. And what is it that I have been missing all this time?  A current, unseen to the eye, but quite plainly felt by even the smallest of the vessels anchored below me.  A current that is invisibly orienting all those boats in one, uniform direction.  A current that is only truly seen through the effect it creates on this, calm Cornish evening.

“Be still and know that I am God...” is how Psalm 46 puts it.

 

I've written about it before, but I'm still hovering around it and it is becoming more powerful in my mind the more I consider it, especially given what I am looking at right now.

I believe that even nature testifies to the true essence of life – that there is an invisible life giving flow that has the potential to point us all in the right direction if we simply allow ourselves to trust.  A flow which emanates from God Himself.  A flow of pure love that will bring us all into true unity of purpose and existence if we would only learn to be still...to cease from our fear driven striving and simply to trust the anchor of love that holds us to Jesus – to God. He will never leave us or forsake us...never.

 

So why fight when you can float and discover the true power of the flow that points us to God?