The Bucket of Grace

Welcome to the "Tundra Lodge"! This is a great lodging experience that boasts a three story, 30,000 square foot indoor Water Park . The Tundra Lodge is in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Good thing we were inside since it was snowing outside. Across the parking lot is the legendary "Lambeau Field" - home of the mighty Green Bay Packers!!

Our table and lawn chairs were positioned against the wall but near the "spray zone" of the intricate maze of the indoor play structure with all sorts of water coming out of different nozzles and sprinklers. Atop this massive structure was "The Bucket".  This "bucket" holds about 400 gallons of water and sits off center on an axle of some sort. It is continuously being filled with water and every three minutes (like clockwork) it tilts and dumps 400 gallons of water all over the play structure. Where we were sitting we would receive a few drops every time.

I was fascinated by the response of the kids of all ages to the "Bucket."

**Some people would watch for it, anticipate it and run right to the spot where they would feel the full weight of this dumping deluge.

Others hid themselves strategically under a bridge or in a box where they would watch the water cascade around them but not really get wet. They were ironically close but at a strategic distance.

Others would be walking by "innocently", unaware of what was about to take place and upon hearing the "whoooooosh" of water they would jump out of the way, avoiding the spray altogether. They would instinctively let out a scream as they avoided the avalanche. (I thought to myself... It's a Water Park. You're supposed to get wet!)

Others were pulled into the "splash zone" unwillingly. More than once I saw a boyfriend pulling his girlfriend in the "zone" and watching her jump to the tip of her toes as she got drenched. Amazingly both parties involved ended up laughing like crazy afterwards.

Then there were those like myself, at a safe distance, purposefully avoiding the Bucket but experiencing and enjoying the occasional drops of water that would find their way over to me.

It was a great night to people watch.

My iWitness...

Let me invite you to return to the above paragraph where you see the two **. Start reading from that point and as you do this time think of The Bucket as the unending, eternal Bucket of God's grace.

Let me know if the same "people watching" observations don't apply when it comes to the bucket of God's grace... which is poured out for us every second of every day...

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions...
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
(Joel 2. 28, 32)

The Bucket of God's grace! See you there!
Don't forget to wear your bathing suit... we're going to get drenched!

And that's my iWitness...
Laugh often and Fear not!
David!