It is the rocks of a stream that guide the water. But the water also guides the rocks, shifting them slowly over time. Those aspects of life that you view as fixed and certain are really nothing of the kind. All is in motion.
Some things move too quickly for you to see them, and some things move too slow. The speed of life lies somewhere in the middle, in the range of changes that you can see and interact with.
You can climb a mountain, though you cannot witness its birth—although you have no memory of its childhood, adolescence, or middle age. You can use electricity, drink water, or trap the wind in sails to move a vessel, even though the molecular movements that allow for all of these are invisible to the eye.
You must learn to trust the range of your own experience—to reclaim the wisdom of your senses, the knowledge of each sunrise, and the skill that comes from catching and releasing the wind with every breath.
You can push against time with all your might and never move it so much as an inch. Or you can learn to relax and trust and live fully in the moments that are allotted to you. When you do this, you will know that time is a river with no beginning, no middle, and no end.
You are everywhere at once, and I am with you throughout time, in every possible moment and every conceivable place. What cause do you have for anxiety, apart from the worries you heap upon yourself and carry? No one has asked you to bear this burden. It isn’t necessary, and it is not required. To live is to move. To move is to be in time. To be in time is to be eternal and always at My side.