The Well Within Our Reach

In this particularly perilous time, we are faced with ever mounting issues of personal and social survival. There is a certain conditioning at play, which causes us to acknowledge the more modest, but immediate relief from our travails. We have become too easily distracted by details, by personality, by headline, by sensation, and all for the illusion that we survive for some future benefit. If conditioning holds out, this future remains just that -- future -- never attained, never arrived at; a long way out of reach or almost within our grasp.

I have been guilty of such short-sightedness. In my mind, 5 billion prayers and pleas for relief and deliverance would just put mine into a pot; multiply that by several times per day, every day, month, year,........ I could never be a priority. Even reasoned omnipotence has its limits. There is total parity in the universe. We are all energy, matter, and energy, again.

Ours is the search for a well, a fountain of affirmation and empowerment, the source endless and its bounty well beyond. We wade through a vast desert called life looking for an oasis on the horizon, on the surface. This is the point of opportunity sought and fulfilled, but it is deceiving if it is the only accepted point of recognition and reference. Looking for trees and grasses is, most certainly, evidence of life flowing from below, but it represents a greater wellspring fed by an integrated network of springs and aquifers, which can extend far beyond our vision.

Sometimes a stream runs its course, visibly meandering in meadow and wood, mountain and valley. Other times it is unseen, running freely and undetected beneath our feet. Either one represents the opportunity to partake of its benefit.

The lesson here is to feel and to recognize the well wherever it is. Do not be distracted by only looking for the obvious. Ask, "why here and why now" and determine its value as a source for solution, removing the "problem" paradigm, and initiating response in place of reaction. Responsible engagement is the backbone of the MyGigNet and global community.

We must stop looking for the sip of water when the well is within our reach.