On Thursday, I couldn’t access one of my email accounts. Friday, I couldn’t make payments online.

It could be what a former mentor of mine calls “Mercury Retrograde” which (I think) implies, “Don’t rely on technology today, the Gods are playing.”

After trying all the usual work-arounds (I am persistent!), another machine, another web browser, and so on, I rang the bank helpline and explained my problem. “You need to uninstall and reinstall Java,” she said, “A lot of customers were having problems with the latest update not loading properly.”

I won’t bore you with the details of my travels around Java, Microsoft, Mozilla, and umpteen screens on my computer before the problem got resolved. The point is, it WAS resolved. It took about 20 minutes, at the end of which I could access my email AND make payments online.

I was amazed by how much support there was out there. This little machine that I rely on to link me to the outside world is an incredible example of how the universe supports me in ways I can’t begin to dream of.  Think of all the people who had to come together to get me back on track…

The woman I spoke to in the bank

The phone company who connected us

The tech guys (or girls) who wrote the automated fixes for each of the problems

The wire and power people

The computer makers

The furniture makers who made my desk

All the professionals who support all of those people I’ve mentioned, such as bankers, accountants, etc

And so on…the list must be thousands

And without them all doing their part to keep the system working, I would not be able to do what I needed to do.

I often hear practitioners talk about the isolation they feel, and sometimes I feel it too. But on Friday, I was so aware of all those little elves out there, who play a part in my life, usually unseen, unacknowledged and unappreciated, doing their daily work, and in a thousand ways, supporting me in mine. And until it went wrong, I didn’t even think about the amazing part they play in keeping me connected to the world.

Friday, they helped me to get back online. And I’m enormously grateful!

Often we can become so focused on what’s wrong with the world that we totally fail to see how much is going right, how much of the time. Think of all the things we never consider until there’s a problem, like traffic lights, or running water, or electricity. None of them hugely exciting, but when they don’t work, when the water stops flowing, when the power is off or the traffic lights are on the blink, how quickly their support becomes apparent.

Now, how else are the elves of the universe going to help me in my practice today?

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