One of the most important things you can do right now is to locate your true Source and keep drinking from that well. In “normal” (non-pandemic) times, we enter into our relationships and lean on each other to varying degrees, ebbing and flowing in that way based on who has energy to give, the dynamics of our relationships, how we manage stress, etc. But in these times, everyone is under intense, chronic stress in different ways. Everyone is a pot leaking water, and you are a pot leaking water, too – so if you need to truly be refilled and replenished like never before, you can’t look to another leaking pot. You have to go back to the water source.

We can only ever help one another without burning out to the extent that we are grounded in our Source – in our spiritual connection, our Higher Power – and keep refilling from that place. Good times (“normal” times) obscure the truth that other people aren’t our real Source. God is the only source that will never run out. There’s just no possible way to exhaust God’s love for us. Also, going into nature and spending time attuning to the peacefulness in nature offers a profound recalibration that can’t be found any other way. We can keep returning to these two sources (which are really the same source) to receive what we need at a soul level, to be renewed.

God has given us what we need to make it through. We don’t have to worry if we see limitations in other people, whether it be the people right around us or government leaders. You have access to a Source that can provide things that other people simply can’t, like real inner peace. Soul safety and soul healing. True joy. Hope. The deepest comfort.

Part of the anxiety so many are feeling right now is the soul frantically searching for something to root itself in, a landing place, something to hold onto in a time when it feels like there’s no solid ground. The soul is grasping for its true home, which is in God, and which can be experienced in God’s creation, the natural world. We are part of God and we are part of nature. Returning to that is where we’ll find true replenishment and peace.

Also, the Earth is the original model of self-care. She gives so much to us (and we take so much from her!) and while we are starting to see her limit (hello climate change), somehow she has kept on renewing and recalibrating herself. I believe that staying close to the Earth can teach us how to do that too.

We are all pots leaking water – not even just now, but all the time. We have many needs and limitations, and we’re constantly expending energy. Life can be challenging. Without being grounded in our Source we would run out of water and soon be empty. Many people just run on empty all the time. Even if we lean on one another, we have to do it with the understanding that we’re all leaking pots. We will have nothing to give one another if we’re not each rooted in a Source that will not run out like we do.

Find your Source, which is Love. Locate yourself in it. Keep returning to it to fill your own leaking pot. When you help others who are stumbling, be sure to also tell them what has been one of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever received in a time of trouble:

“Go to your Source.”