The Waterfall

The fourth song in Finding God on your iPod 2015 is "The Waterfall" by My Morning Jacket. Sometimes it feels like life is just piling one painful thing after another on top of us.The power of the waterfall as a metaphor is in its unending relentlessness. Long before My Morning Jacket used the waterfall as a metaphor for how life can beat us down, the Sons of Korah used the waterfall as a metaphor in exactly the same way. So how do we stop the waterfall? How do we stop the endless cascades of pain? We can’t do it by stopping all the painful experiences. But here’s a secret:

Most of our pain is either retrieved from the past or borrowed from the future.

That’s the first part of the secret—that our pain is mostly not present, but retrieved or borrowed. The second part of the secret is this:

We stop the waterfall of pain by learning to live in the present moment present to God's eternal love.