Missed Opportunity

It is funny how the “water and dry well story’ replays so many times in our lives.
If you are not familiar with this story or have never experienced missing the water only after the well went dry, then you are no ordinary human.

These days, for most of us, freedom or lack thereof is both the water and the well. We have been stripped of our ability to live as we normally would and we are missing it.

We miss walking in nature, looking at it in full bloom, sneezing from the pollen in the air, well perhaps not the sneezing part since the result may be a full-on side-eye.
We miss going to work, chatting idly with colleagues when we should be more productive. We even miss our supervisors and bosses.
We miss going to church. For once in our lives, we miss hearing the Pastor drone on and on, preaching fire and brimstone on the wicked sinner. We would not mind being that sinner in the pew.

But within all the missing and wanting, lies a perfect opportunity.
The ability to get still and quiet and listen in on a conversation between our inner being and the Divine. We will marvel at the words being exchanged and the feeling of peace, comfort, and love that is shared.

Then we will realize that we are missing nothing.