If:

• You are already close to running late
• Your well didn’t get water in it yesterday because you forgot to fill the cup
• You do your devotional at 5:30 am before caffeine
• You are trying to establish a regular practice but still get to work on time
• Your well is a beautiful wooden bowl made of pieced woods in different colors that was a gift you can never replace

Then:

• Your wooden well will have cracked along a seam in the bottom from having water left in it the last time you did ritual
• You will not notice this until half the well has emptied out the crack in the bottom, soaking the entire top of your altar
• You will be out of paper towels in your altar room, and will have to make a mad dash to the kitchen to get some
• Your old ceramic well will be full of wine corks, which have no other place to go, so you will have to leave them in a pile on the counter
• When you empty your old well, it will be full of cork dust, so you will need to wash it

And then:

• By the time you finally get back to your devotional, you will have forgotten what steps you did and have to start over
• Making you at least 10 minutes late getting out the door