The Sea is Always Right

Many of us get to a time in our life where the path, once clear before us, loses its definition. What’s meant to light us up, doesn’t anymore. And this can feel like we are getting it all wrong.

We want to make the right turn, especially at a time in our life when we feel we have only a few big life junctions left.

Is this the right path for me to take? Or the wrong one?

That’s a question that leads us to paralysis and leaves us firmly in the harbour.

The harbour is the life we build around security, expectation and identity. The sea is the deeper life that calls us beyond it.

To leave the harbour is to go deeper and to go deeper is to follow our aliveness.

The sea is always right - so the sailors used to say.

Not us, in our little boat and our ideas of whether we are heading on a right or wrong bearing.

But the wild sea. It needs to be respected and surrendered to.

And to do that we have to let go of our need to be right, and embrace our need to feel alive.

Far better a question than am I right, is am I sailing?