Tag: stagnant

Your Mind – a Reservoir

Jennifred Jones

Reservoirs and floodgates. Store it up and let it out!

Our wonderful mind is like a reservoir that will store up whatever we send its way. All the good ideas and plans and thoughts, experiences, movies, songs, places we’ve been, books we’ve read…all in there!

I think that’s partly why so many books have been written. People have so much in their reservoir they have to get it out and share it with others. Essentially, they’re opening the floodgate of their mind and letting the water flow.

What we store in our reservoir is what will flow out. Thinking now about dams…debris tends to float on the top, it doesn’t go down into the turbines. That’s handy because the debris can be skimmed off and discarded. Other pollutants get mixed in with the water and won’t get filtered out but will come out when the floodgates are opened. That’s why some content is good, and some not so good.

Fortunately, there are water purifiers to help us filter out the pollutants. We can install these upstream before the water enters our reservoir to keep the waters clean and clear. Sunlight is another natural purifier which can kill just about any bad thing with long enough exposure. If the waters are very polluted and stagnant, a good hard rain and some flooding will clear everything out for us…maybe a little lightning and thunder so we can see and hear better what’s been getting into our water.

The object of the reservoir is to retain and release pure waters to help not only us and ours but others further downstream.

Do today:

  • Rake off debris
  • Check water filters upstream

Prime the Pump!

Jennifred Jones

Sometimes we let ourselves get stagnant, get behind, become dry, stale, things aren’t working…

We need to prime the pump to get things going again!

Back in the day when people dug wells and had to pump water by raising and lowering the long handle to draw up water from the ground…if it hadn’t been used for a long, long time, then no water would come up as you pumped the handle. So to get things flowing again, they had to pour a little water into the well (prime the pump) and get it running again. I really don’t know all the ins and outs of the process; however, adding only a relatively small amount of water to the pump resulted in LOTS of water coming out!

This morning, I was kind of uncertain what to do first, where to start…even wondering if I was capable! Crazy thoughts that come to us all!!

The thought came, ‘I need to prime the pump’.

There were still all the same talents, skills, capabilities, and ideas inside me, I had to get them out by priming my pump…just pouring a little water on one thing, one idea, one skill and bring it back to life, get it flowing again and I’d be off!!!

It worked! It wasn’t hard, all it needed was a little water and the floodgates opened!

Do you have one or maybe two or even three areas in your life where the pump needs to be primed? Take a look back at areas where the water has flowed freely in your life before and pour a little water on them. Get things going again. That’s all it takes.

The hardest part is lifting your hand to pour the water.

Let’s get started together. This world needs the waters we have flowing to sustain them.

Water yourself; then you can water your world.