Up From the Ground - A Bubbling Pool

Well, upon further investigation, the wet weather stream, more accurately named an ephemeral stream, is not what it appeared to be.  My brother and I further explored the channel through the woods of Longhunter State Park on Monday.  We discovered it to be more than merely a drainage ditch.  The stream begins at a pair of springs. Depending on the height of the water table is either simply bubble up in a shallow pool

, or, at times of greater flow, seems to surge out of the rocks.

This little stream was not as it seemed.  Had I not turned aside at the little stream flowing across the paved trail.  Had I not gone back for a second look, I would not know the truth about this stream.  

How often, we look, but fail to see.  How often we jump to conclusions based on very limited information.  I did this with the little wet weather stream.  I have done the same with people.  To truly understand someone we must consider not only what we see here and now, but we must take the time to see from whence they have come.  You may be surprised what you find if you simply look up steam.  You can learn where they came from.  You can learn about what has shaped them.  And in learning these things, you will have taken the time to see, and, maybe yourself to be seen, the complexity that is the human spirit, shaped by life's origin and the things along the path that have brought us to this very place.