The Sail

 If you have ever been sailing you know that it is a lot easier to move in a direction and with some rapidity, if the wind is in the sails, that is you are moving with the wind and not against it.  There are times for tacking of course, but the image I get is in being one with the wind.  This is how I want my spiritual life to be, moving me along like the wind in the direction I say I want to go.  I sometimes say I want to do this or go in this direction, but then do that or go fully off course.  My defects of character seem to become stronger than the spiritual wind that is present to help me.  And if there is no wind, no breeze?  Be still in the silence.  Patience, sailors!