The Dance of the Cottonwood

Have you ever watched a piece of Cottonwood Tree flow through the air? It is a beautiful representation of life. The cottonwood flows where ever the air takes it. It flows up, it flows down, and side by side. It just goes the direction that the air moves it. There are no barriers while in the air, nothing to stop its flow. Eventually it may bump into something solid,  but it is so light and free that it lifts itself back up and flows again.Only does the cottonwood stop moving forward when it is no longer in the flow. The cottonwood has no preconceived notions of what life is about, nothing to hold it back from it's journey. The cottonwood is in the continual dance of life. The cottonwood does not resists the flow, as it lets the air take it naturally to its next path.

We can use the cottonwood as a wonderful example of a life without the barriers. Life is in constant flow. We would feel just as free and wonderful as the cottonwood if we would let go and flow with life.