The Stress Fountain

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name. (Acts 22:16)

 

For many people, their jobs, school, etc. is very stressful. Certainly, this is a part of life and something that all of us have to learn to live with in one way or another. While having stress is a normal part of life, taking it home with you can be very damaging to any relationship. I am guilty of this and have too often brought my stress and worries home with me and shared them with my innocent family.

For many years, I have tried to remember to leave my worries at the door when I get home, but I often forget and I continue to bring them home day after day. What I need is something to remind me; I need something symbolic!

Just outside the front door of our house in the garden next to the walkway is a beautiful water fountain. It's very large and makes a loud, but soothing water fall sound. It is something that I cannot miss when walking up to the front door of our house. Then it hit me; I'll make this my "Stress Fountain!"

Now, every day when I come home. I make a habit to stop at the stress fountain and use the water to wash my worries away and leave them outside. The next morning, if I need to pick up those worries again; I will go by the stress fountain and pick them up and take back to work with me. However, the next morning it seems that those worries are much smaller and hard to find. Maybe, those worries sank to the bottom of the stress fountain, never to resurface again.

by James Apple Jr.

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