You can’t, we are told, step in the same river twice. The water is always moving, and life never holds still so that we can freeze the moment. But you can float with the river, holding to your same river by moving along with it, keeping the moment by releasing yourself to move as it moves.
What helps you to “go with the flow”?
Like river rafts, people and congregations need to “paddle” a little faster than the current. Otherwise we drift in circles. IMHO