Water Will Go Where It Will Go

Lily and I went to Pedernales Falls State Park on the eve of her snake training. The park is about an hour and a half from home. It covers 5200 acres of rugged Texas terrain. While there is not much of an elevation change, it provided a challenging hike for us... and was spectacularly beautiful! The falls themselves are a 300 million year old limestone stair step cascade along the Pedernales River. Over the years, ancient tectonic shifts and ongoing river erosion have shaped the riverbed.

As we walked along the river, I was struck by how much the rocks had changed under its flow. The power of the river is not in its force alone, but in its persistence.

Water finds a way. It flows around what stands in its path, over what tries to stop it, and through what seems impossible to move. Given enough time, even rock begins to yield. The river doesn’t have to destroy the obstacle. It simply keeps going.

Maybe that is how God created us to live.

He created something within us that is meant to flow—to move, to grow, to pursue, to become. We may not always know exactly where the current is taking us, but we can trust that we were not created to remain stagnant.

There will be rocks in the river. There will be obstacles, resistance, and moments when the path seems blocked. But if we keep moving—if we keep trusting God and keep pressing forward—what stands in our way may eventually bend, break, or simply become part of the path.

The water does not need to know how it will get there.

It just keeps flowing.

And perhaps faith is learning to do the same: trust God, keep moving, and let persistence carve the path.