Growing up in San Antonio, we would often take visitors to Natural Bridge Caverns which is about an hour away into a new world. When you descend into the cavern, you’ll have sensory overwhelm as your eyes adjust to the darkness and your olfactory system is hit with the pungent smell of bat guano. The structures within are fascinating and to see Mother Nature at work is a humbling reminder of strong presence.
It takes 100 years for 1 centimeter to form on a stalactite or stalagmite. An entire century! Not even an inch! 100 millimeters. And yet, each drop of water carries with it minerals and each drop leaves a deposit and another and another so much so that the deposit forms into something you can touch and feel and see. There is something magical happening with each drip that can so easily be ignored or dismissed or take for granted.
I think we can do the same with our own growing. The patience required when one invests in their internal world is similar to what happens within those caverns. Each session has the potential of a drop that contains something that will be visible months/years later. The work in those sessions matters because the formation is made up of many of those micro moments where we choose healthier ways of being.
