Short story: We are our own journeyman, but God plans our journey for us

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Sri Josmin Artenko, a spiritual master, was being ferried across a river, by a ferryman. When they got halfway across, the master asked the ferryman to stop the boat, for a few minutes. The oarsman, a rough-looking Arab guy, looked at the master a bit quizzically, and said, "No, I have a tight schedule to meet." Sri Josmin, looked over the side of the boat for just a minute, then he jumped in, and he was gone within the swirling waters of the rapidly moving waters of the wide river. "Now, he was a strange one," the ferryman thought to himself, as he kept the ferry going towards the other side. Once, he had reached the other side, he pulled in against the wharf there, threw out a rope over the wooden mooring block there, and he secured his ferry. Then, looking up at the wharf, he was very surprised to see the master seated there on a seat, at the end of the wharf. "How, did you get here, then?" he asked him. The master smiled, and said, "I was brought here by another ferryman, my friend, who always grants me my requests of him." "The way of all truth can never be known to anyone else who never has the time for this truth. Living in truth allows you to walk in truth, and this takes you out of the clutches of others into the arms of God, who will ferry you to where you need to go." Then, the master laughed: "I am pulling your leg, my good man." "I am a good swimmer, and I swam here." "I wanted you to stop, as I had spotted something floating in the water." "I found this old wooden carving there, and I wanted a closer look, as it seemed to have religious motives to it. It is a carving of Buddha." "Only our own self as the ferryman, can live our own life for us, but we do need to get guidance from God too, to get through our life unscathed." "The floating Buddha reminded me of this sound advice that my own old master used to give to me." "Oh," said the ferryman, "a ferryman has no time to waste on looking for floating Buddhas." The master had a last word, and then he walked off. "No time is wasted, when we get something from what is found." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com In life, we need to go our own way, at times. We cannot be ferried everywhere.