UPFRONT May 19, 2008 Issue

Big decisions call for a sure source

WARREN BOLON, SENIOR WRITER

Some people make their big decisions by weighing the pros and cons, talking with friends and advisors, and sorting through multiple options for the best fit or financial advantage. I've tried them all. But I find the best answers by drinking from a spring.

By way of explaining, come with me along upper New Hampshire's Route 26 as it winds through the hills north of the White Mountains. Eventually we'll round a curve and arrive at one of New England's few remaining grand resort hotels ... a complex of white clapboard buildings with peaked red roofs over verandahs, reflected in an alpine pond. Impressive, but like many locals who occasionally drop by, we've come instead for the cool, sweet, and quite free spring water that flows constantly from a single spigot in the small spring house just off the highway.

That spring symbolizes for me how God's ideas freely, constantly flow to each of us. How, when we stop to accept God's presence and love, spiritual intuition comes to fill, refresh, redirect, and move us, sometimes in surprising directions. God's thoughts are flowing to us at this moment, within consciousness, because we're actually the outflow or emanation of the divine Mind. With prayer and patient listening, answers will come, since the Source of all inspiration doesn't leave any real thirst unquenched.

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