Shortly after we moved to the Portland-Vancouver area in 1995, we discovered the Salmon Street fountain along the Willamette River boardwalk. I had never seen anything like it. A wide circle of powerful water jets shot into the center of an only slightly dipped surface. There was no pool, no off-limits. This was a fountain meant to be played in. Children ran through it screaming. Teenagers stood in the very center, seeing how long they could withstand its power. But it was also a "guessing" fountain. It changed from the outside jets shooting inward to the center jets shooting outward. My husband and I let our 5-year-old boys peel off their Sunday clothes and run through the fountain in their Superman underwear. We took turns running through it ourselves with our 18-month-old daughter in our arms. We squealed, laughed and got soaked. Then we got great big ice cream cones, sat on the benches and dried out a bit before heading home for naptime.
The Salmon Street fountain is the one that came to mind as I read Oswald's entry today. "You are to focus on the Source so that out of you 'will flow rivers of living water' -- irrepressible life." Not just a fountain to be admired as beautiful from a safe distance but a fountain full of giggling, squealing, surprising, powerful life.
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ReplyDeleteHi, I found your blog because I got curious to see if there were other Oswald Chambers blogs out there besides mine. It looks like you and I are doing something similar with our blogs by doing the Oswald Chambers devotionals each day. Perhaps you would like to look at mine.
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I love that image--was it really 25 years ago?
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