Breakthrough at the Zandmotor

When you learn to know the sea, the seaside, the streams and tides under the powerful working of the winds and the big ocean streams, you will discover constant change. No day the experience at the seaside is the same as the day before. Even in the course of one day - of course also under the influence of the weather - the changing is real. And I do not mean here the changing of colours of morning and afternoon, the light intensity from dawn to sunset. Everything presents itself in a renewed way, every day.

There are changes that are striking when you have been absent for a period. As we were in our Carlsheaven Forest Home. I signalled already that the course of the Laguna-canal had changed significantly. Instead of the old long outstream, a new - and shorter - one has formed itself by a breakthrough-shortcut into the surf. It is so fascinating to discover this kind of happening: a real breakthrough! Today’s photo shows the new outstream into the sea at low tide. In the background the Zandmotor Peninsula.

What is so fascinating about breakthrough? I feel myself smiling when writing this on my computer. Because, I deeply feel and know in a most inner way that the “real experience”, the lived experience of the most unique and radical breakthrough which may happen to you in your life is - of course - not the kind of spontaneous changing of the course of a waterway. But that kind of turning upside down of your entire existence has to do with a breakthrough in reaching and communicating with the fundamental ground of your unique way of being. Such a breakthrough can happen. If so, after the “event” it may turn out to be the greatest Gift you can ever receive. The gratitude which is connected with this “inner revolution” is immensely deep and rejoycing. I can see and recognize that when looking at the last end of the Zandmotor Peninsula. Shorter now than before, but radically regrounded.