Bubbles fill the air…
Her new “bubble machine” shoots bubbles faster than she can catch them…
Laughing, she runs with her finger on the trigger of the bubble machine…
An extravagance of bubbles fills the air…
There are bubbles above her…
Bubbles in front of her…
Bubbles behind her…
Bubbles beside her…
I laugh as I watch…
But somewhere inside my head, a tiny voice sounds a warning…
“She’ll be out of bubbles soon…”
“She should slow down…”
Knowing how fast two year-old laughter can turn into two year-old tears, I say…
“Give me the bubble machine…”
“I’ll make the bubbles while you chase them…”
My secret plan?
I will be very careful about how fast I shoot the bubbles…
I shoot a few bubbles in one direction…
“Chase them!” I call …
I wait until she is finished before I shoot more bubbles…
Very sensible, don’t you think?
But soon….
Her laughter dies away…
She stops running in circles chasing the bubbles…
She looks for something else to do…
“The bubbles are saved for another day!” I think triumphantly.
As I am congratulating myself on my adult sagacity, a picture from a few minutes ago comes back into my mind…
A picture of a yard filled with bubbles…
A picture accompanied by the sounds of happy laughter…
Now the bubbles are gone…
So is the laughter…
Some things we should save….
Others we should spend immediately, extravagantly…
The love of God should flow unrestricted from God’s heart through our hearts and out to a waiting world…
“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'” John 7:38
How can we keep what we don’t own?
How can we keep what was given to us as a gift?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
