Part 2 - AMORC

y Doris Knollbrook SPARKS the imagination.When looking at its waters, I often wonderwhere it comes from and where it ends up.I’d like to be a drifting leaf and set sail forthe sights and experiences that must be ahead as thebrook runs on its way.How old are you, brook? How did you cometo be the way you are? Two hundred years fromnow, who will be standing here where I now stand?How much will you have changed? Will you still berushing merrily along as you do now? The brook is amarvellous accompaniment to meditating, thinkingthrough a problem or resolving a conflict. My mindclears of trivia and reaches back to re-examine life’sfundamentals.Staring into the brook heightens my awarenessof how we separate ourselves so deliberately from thenatural bent of our bodies and spirit. How complicatedour lives are, how hectic our comings and goings, howcluttered our homes become as we accumulate thingsand leave them to dust and repair as we move fromhere to there. Why do we shove the important thingsthat make life meaningful to the fringes of concern?Why do we waste precious time so compulsively?Why do we make ourselves so busy?The obvious solution is nurturing a closerrelationship with nature. The older I grow, the moreintense is my desire to understand nature. I wantto know nature’s language, read its messages, learnhow to live as an integral part of it. And then, isn’tit just possible that I shall learn more about myselfand what God wants of me in this world? Is it tooambitious an undertaking? Have I travelled theconcrete paths too long? Surely my interest is atleast a small encouragement to try? My brook is theperfect place to begin.For all the reading I do, for all my predilectionfor how-to books on everything from saving timeto solving problems, this learning must be done bysolving problems, by watching and paying closeattention. So, maybe if I listen quietly on the brook’sbank and observe with all the concentration I canmuster, a beginning will have been made. And then,who knows what wonders may reveal themselves?30The Rosicrucian Beacon -- June 2008