I am back

Well it has been a long time since i last put anything up here. For me this has been a good outlet for my thoughts on Spirituality and my just random thoughts as i read and think and all that. So today my thoughts have to do with serving. I read of a dammed up lake that cannot take on more water without flowing over the banks. there are different ways to view a waterway. The quiet peaceful river running through the woods and the rest that it offers as you just can hear the gentle trickle of water flowing. The calm that it brings in life. Walking through the woods you hear just a faint trickle and for some reason you are caught, you want to pursue the trickle and the gentle water, in fact you have to. You cannot keep going without finding the source and when you do you sit, you rest, you drink, and if you are with anybody you talk. Ahhhhh what a sweet feeling you have made it. But where is the water going? it has to flow somewhere, something has to receive it or maybe something has let this out. I live near a dam, the spring time is a great time to go and watch the dam, there are times when the water is flowing so hard you cannot hear the person next to you talk. The water is flowing into the dammed area so fast it has to be let out. The roar and rush of running whitewater just has excitement about it that you want to jump in you want to experience the rush that it can give. Is not serving very similar to the rush of an over flowing dammed up body of water? The excitement that serving brings draws people in, serving cannot happen without being filled up and flowing out with love and mercy for other people.