All My Fountains Are In You

Fun fact.  I don’t drink carbonated drinks.  Yep.  Just water and juice and lemonade.  No carbonation.  At school, we have one local water fountain.  This one time I filled my water bottle up from that fountain and nearly died.  No jokes.  The water was disgusting.  Plus, it is right next to the boys’ bathroom, and well, I just don’t really trust the nature of that location. 

Everything is cyclical.  We make money to spend money.  We buy food to eat it.  We make our beds to sleep in them and mess them up once again.  A vicious cycle… 

(I’m going somewhere with this, I promise!)

So here’s the deal.  Our energy in life, it needs to be refilled.  We wear so many hats each day:  wife, mom, teacher, daughter, sister, friend, fill in the blank.  After fulfilling all of those roles, we often find ourselves running on fumes.  We must be refilled.  So what is our source?  From which fountain are we choosing to fill up our bottles?  There are so many things that we can attempt to fill up on that actually leave us feeling even more thirsty (because ain’t nobody interested in drinking the water from near the boys’ bathroom!).  But when we find that good source, where the purest water is, we can continually fill up.  Why?  So we can use it up again. 

Use what you have- your time, your energy, your talents.  Someone will be affected by your gifts.  But once you’ve expended all your water, make sure you’re filling up at the right fountain…