The currents do flow as easily as this recent moment in the river of life.

I have a dessert I planned to make today for an event tomorrow.    A special recipe at that, for it is one my grandma passed on to me.   When I make it, I not only feel my grandma with me in the kitchen.    I feel myself paying forward her joy and love of baking and then serving that joy and love to the recipients through a delicious, sweet treat.  

I needed to purchase some of the ingredients and typically I get those ingredients at a larger supermarket because the smaller stores where I shop do not carry one of the ingredients.   Or so I thought.   

I didn’t have a need to go to the larger market, and so I found myself setting out for grocery shopping wishing I could find this ingredient at one of the other two stores.  A subconscious intention I tossed into the river flow. 

Enter first store.   And affirmation they don’t stock the item I was looking for as an everyday staple.  

Enter second store.   Complete items into cart from grocery list.  Listen to that inner whisper that nudges check out the freeze, because the ingredient I needed is a freezer item.   And wa-la, there it is!   What I needed was in the smaller store after all!

The currents do flow as easily as this recent serendipitous moment, in that nothing is really coincidence, magical way that the river flows.   If we choose to hear and see.   

And what I’ve started to discover is that the more we listen and observe, the more easily the river flows without our frenzied paddling.