A perpetual source of living

It's time to revisit the idea I started on January 1st of this year. In that blog I set forth the teaching that the Master Teacher gave to a Samaritan woman. Part of that teaching was the following:

Those who drink this water will get thirsty again, but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life.

A closer look at "life-giving water" might lead in a second direction than the one I took on the 1st of the year. This water will become a perpetual source of living here and in the hereafter. So, I have to try to find something that is in both dimensions. A little later in John Jesus promises the 12 that he is leaving behind with them someone who will stand beside them even though he is leaving them and they cannot go where he is going. This "someone" will lead them to the next world and reveal truth to them in this world.

So, my musing today is that this perpetual source of living is the one who stands beside us revealing truth to us and showing us the path home. We certainly need that help in navigating the path home. It is a treacherous path filled with illusions, pain, drifting, uncertainty, bludgeoning of the sprirt, and triumph on occasion. If we have the Teacher's surrogate living in us and helping us navigate life's journey, then certainly the teacher would say that we would never be thristy again.

The next life is a great mystery. It is behind a door in a place we cannot see until we are freed from the trappings of this dimension. I have family who have preceded me in reaching this destination. They have not revealed the secrets of this mysterious next world. But, I want to rejoin them. I think that means that the inner help in navigating the path home that the Teacher promised is something that I can depend on. This perpetual source of living makes me more confident that I can see the path home clearly or that at least by following the truth revealed along this path can be a trusted and true compass to the destination in which many dwellings have been built in a compound—one with my name on it. I do not waver in taking the right position in life. I have a source of living within me, a trusted and true compass to my destination.