Trusting the Flow of Life

Beloved One, who loves me unconditionally with all the wild love and affection of the universal heart, help me now. I trust in my own heart wisdom and the truth of your love for me. Help me to trust in the flow of life, to let go of my fixed plans and ideas, and to open up to the genius of love itself.

May I realize that my destiny will unfold with absolute perfection, and may I trust in the signs I am given.

May I be able to release any false guidance based in fear, and may I open up instead to genuine guidance and inner knowing based in love.

Under the grace of your protection, may it be so.

– Alana Fairchild
Excerpted from the guidebook message for
Card #8 (“Cosmic Heart”) in Rumi Oracle:
An Invitation into the Heart of the Divine
Llewellyn Publications, 2016

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

TRUST
• Surrendering in Sacred Trust
• Resting in the Presence of the Beloved
• Trust and Surrender
• Trusting God’s Generous Invitation
• Giving Thanks: A Spiritual Act of Trust
• Love as Exploring Vulnerability
• Love as “Quest and Daring and Growth”
• “Queer Love Is My Divine Companion”
• Seeking Higher Perceptions
• The Guidance of Higher Forces
• Love Is My Guide

HEART
• Be Just in My Heart
• The Sacred Heart: “Mystical Symbol of Love”
• Teilhard de Chardin and the Heart of Jesus
• Adnan and the Winged Heart
• “Joined at the Heart”: Robert Thompson on Christianity and Sufism
• In the Abode of the Heart
• Heart Prints

DANCE
• Our Dance
• The Art of Dancing as the Supreme Symbol of the Spiritual Life
• “Then I Shall Leap Into Love”
• Love’s the Only Dance
• We All Dance
• And As We Dance . . .
• The Premise of All Forms of Dance
• Finding Balance in the Presence of the Beloved
• “I Came Alive With Hope”
• The Body: As Sacred and Knowing as a Temple Oracle
• Our Bodies Are Part of the Cosmos
• Flexibility and Flow
• Move Us, Loving God
• A Prayer for Dancers
• Aristotle Papanikolaou on How Being Religious Is Like Being a Dancer
• Not Whether We Dance, But How
• The Soul of a Dancer

RUMI
• Rumi and Shams: A Love of Another Kind
• Ramesh Bjonnes on Rumi and Shams as Gay Lovers
• The Soul of My Love
• Don’t Go Back to Sleep
• In the Dance of Light, Eyes of Fiery Passion
• The Guesthouse
• The Source Is Within You
• The Sculptor

Images: Syrian-born dancer Ahmad Joudeh, whose autobiography is entitled Dance or Die. Ahmad dedicates his memoir “to the spirit that guides every single one of us, in the memory of the soul, where the flame is, our spirits glow.”