Digging Wells well Before we Need them 💦
March 27, 2022
Digging Wells well Before we Need them 💦
Don’t wait until you’re thirsty to dig your well. That kind of project should have been planned long ago, well before you were even able to imagine what thirst could be.. just in case!
Dig a hole, dig a hole, get a hold of your life with a stronger hold..
More concern, more control. More confusion, loss control. Pay attention, promote prevention. Plan ahead, save yourself the dread. It takes days to make good bread. Do not wait until you’re hungry to search for your recipes. Do not wait until you’re thirsty to ask where the well might be.
Most people in America live a life full of luxury goods compared to other countries.
As such, we can often forget & neglect foundational ideas around what helps promote humans to be well. We have so far removed ourselves from human instincts found of human creatures in a more natural world, held dear to our ancestors long ago.
Many songs of sympathy and stories of wisdom were previously passed down from generation to generation in hopes to preserve the culture, the civility, the great unknowns that once were known of how to keep our families whole, preventing calamity and promoting health, happiness and the pursuit of prosperity.
I’ve heard it said before, and I’ve seen it written in the books that Americans often find themselves falling into wells of consumption and greed, exploring the lands of infinite consumption in search for meaning, purpose, and satisfaction.
Before they know it, they fall down into a deep dark pit…. A well, if you will
And well, they struggle to find their way back up without lots of help from multiple people in their lives to help raise them up out of that well.
Indeed, it takes a great handful of folks to pull someone out of a well they may have found themselves in.
But, let me ask a few deeper questions still.
If no stranger passes by the well, how will anyone ever hear their calls for help?
If the fallen person doesn’t believe in their life’s worth, will they even beckon a call to be raised up with the help of others?
How would we ever know if we are not living, working, interacting in community on a regular basis?
NO, I’m not talking about going to the wishing well in hopes for the latest gossip and glamour of the town. I’m pointing to the following:
1) a community well was a necessary piece of survival puzzle for our villaged ancestors
2) that well was a shared community resource, cherished, and was a source of safety, security, and comfort
3) Sometimes, if we ignore these prized and precious gifts, we can stumble right over them, missing them completely and realize ourselves to be lonely and isolated, unable to help ourselves – we may in fact have fallen right inside the infinite depths of luxuriously lathering ourselves in the living waters of the town, but having all that luxury has it’s pains, especially if we remain lonely and isolated, cold and desperate from the world around us.
We may be adorned with all we could ever ask for, but ironically without a soul to share it with.4) Without a well, we would have been thirsty, tired, searching and longing for something to provide us with comfort, to quelch our worries, to quench our thirst. If you live without knowing where your next source of water or food will come from – you are still searching for survival, you are still stuck in the NOW, unable to plan ahead for prevention because your honest human needs have yet to be met. That’s where a village comes in, that’s why the well was such a precious piece of the puzzle. Don’t stumble over it, don’t ignore it, don’t neglect what you honestly need in your life as a human being.
Health, at its roots is certainly complex, but for most people it is not very complicated. It becomes complicated and convoluted when we neglect the foundations and design our lives around endless distractions that keep us inching away from the truths of our design.
Disease on the other hand, in contrast to health, can definitely be complicated.
There are tens of thousands of different variables to consider for thousands of different diseases as we would like to grow in understanding their treatments and their causes. But, when we open our eyes, remove all the distractions and scope out our perspective… we begin to realize by connecting the dots, that most dis-eases usually stem from incredibly common causes.
Peace in our time – peace in your time – will never come if we do not accept the honest foundational needs of our most primitive survival. Only then can we begin to realize and reach for higher-level principles and ideals to mold and shape our culture together – better together – in most beautiful ways.
It is well known that the leading causes of death around the US and the world include many lifestyle-related diseases
Diagnoses terms you know like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and the increasing external variables of autoimmune disease…
Then we have issues like violence, injuries and accidents
Events like suicide, bodily self-harm, homicide, domestic violence…
And finally I’ll mention the growing concerns of mental health / mental illness related concerns
Experiences like depression, anxiety, loneliness, schizophrenia, eating disorders, drug addiction, food addiction, substance abuse, etc…
These all have endless complexities as you can imagine if you take the disease-focused approach rather than the lens to look for the foundations of health.
You see, disease can manifest itself in dozens of different ways, but usually the lack of healthy foundations begets dis-ease in one form or another.
Let’s consider grouping a) autoimmune disease, b) substance abuse, c) anxiety, and d) domestic violence. Each is a grave concern on their own, but if you can imagine them tracked along an individual’s timeline of their lifespan, you might begin to realize that they all may stem from a similar strand of traumatic childhood where they experienced violence, aggression, and hostility on a daily basis.
As another example, just consider how a) depression, b) food and drug addiction, c) loneliness, and d) diabetes could spawn up for someone over the course of their lifespan. And yet, while their primary medical providers may attempt to medicate each one with a different pharmaceutical prescription to ‘manage’ the disease, the entire medical system as a whole misses the forest for the trees.
Each of these dis-eases may stem from a similar strand of feelings of uselessness, poor self-esteem, worthlessness and perpetual people pleasing while “never feeling like they are enough” due to how their previous spouse or high school crush used to treat them within a past toxic relationship.
Distracted by all the luxuries of drugs and chemical pathways to memorize in school and in ongoing education in practice, they miss out on cherishing the well which brings life, health, safety, security and so on for the whole town together.
This is why I often exclaim that health comes down to the household – the dynamics of a family system and how they come together. We have insane rates of broken homes, lack of funding or care for early intervention and prevention strategies to ensure every family has a chance to 1) stick together, 2) love one another abundantly without the stress and worries of the world on their shoulders and 3) actively see themselves as an actualized self and active participants to promote the survival and ability to thrive in their village or community.
Hope. Peace. Understanding. Empathy.
Prosperity. Abundance. Love.
Without healthy foundations of health – without good seeds to plant in good soils – our steps can often lead us astray, and perhaps we too unexpectedly fall down a deep dark well with only ourselves to blame.
Some of us have strong support systems… family and friends… neighbors and coworkers… a loving community to pull us out of unforeseen consequences or even extreme calamities, but not all of us, many many people live their lives mentally and emotionally alone, believing the lie they must go at this life alone.
If we believe the enticing prideful lie … that is a broken, tattered false security blanket… that we can do this life alone, that we can conquer our goals and thrive in this life without anyone else, we will inevitably find ourselves lonely, isolated and covered in darkness whether we know that we fell or not.
Who will be there to pull us up in times of need if we’ve lived our lives alone, isolated, for better or for worse - thinking it was entirely okay to be alone…?
I tell you the truth, it is certainly NOT okay to believe this lie.
Not now, not ever.
It is vitally important to dig the well with which we must rely upon in order to survive before emergency strikes.
The well of despair stands in stark contrast to the well of community, developed by human connection, empathy and understanding with which we drink love, peace, education, health, and dis-ease prevention – together – better together than we could ever be alone.
I say all this in hopes to enrich our love for one another, to encourage empathy and help us grow to cherish the foundational human need of human connection and the potential calamities that can arise from trying to survive alone.
We must dig our wells before we grow thirsty in order to plan ahead, to maintain our health and promote prevention. Enjoy this week, and check up on your wells, check up on your areas of need and reconsider what wells you may have that can be cherished in a greater way and perhaps what new wells we may need to build - such as family night, game nights, local events, volunteerism, supporting others, asking for help, stepping away from MSM news… or other more personalized ways to support your journey towards health & happiness :)
May God Bless you and yours.
May you endeavor upon your journey with God’s love in your words and wisdom, your actions and deeds, your values and mission with which you live.
Stay Well 💙 Stay Together.
Sincerely, Jonathan - your advocate & admirer
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What I’m reading, thinking, watching, listening, learning about:
My responsibility as an unapologetic Christian man, is to be responsible for my children, passing to them the skills they need to survive. The most primary of these, the most essential, is LOVE. For without love, all manner of terrible outcomes are more likely. - Royce White
How Stress & Trauma can Affect the Gut-Brain Axis and Lead to Disease - example of Autoimmune Disease.