"which flows in places that others disdain"

Paoli, PA

We walked through Vally Forge national park yesterday evening, a beautiful place despite the sad memories there. Tall, old woods, and wide, rolling meadows, with deer everywhere.

We've also enjoyed stopping to look at streams that pass under the roadway. Sometimes we've seen ducks or herons or fish (even an eel!). Once there were several deer drinking. But mostly it's become a reminder of the natural flow that goes on underneath the concrete, unnoticed. A symbol of the gentle Spirit of God living and moving below the hard, loud, man-made surface that usually commands our attention.

It reminded Heather of this passage from the Tao Te Ching that I've quoted to her before:

The best of man is like water,
Which benefits all things, and does not contend with them,
Which flows in places that others disdain,
Where it is in harmony with the Way.

And that makes me think of Jesus and his kingdom of nobodies...