Two buckets of energy fuel your day.
The storm bucket is filled by circumstances and events that are not of our doing. But we deepen the level of the bucket's energy with our worries, our poor decisions, our rebellion and our penchant for treating ourselves and others in a loveless fashion.
And so the storm bucket gets heavier.
We forget that the peace bucket is ours to feed...and ours alone. No one else is going to fill your peace bucket for you. Your peace bucket can only be filled by the strength, depth, and frequency of time that you get by yourself and search for life's meaning and goodness.
I choose God as my life's meaning and goodness so my peace bucket is filled with countless hours and days pondering Him, crying out to Him, believing He has my best interest at heart.
The peace bucket fills a drop at a time while the storm bucket can fill at a seemingly tsunami rate.
But this I know: the peace bucket, drop for drop, filled by Peace named God, who made us and wants us to interact with Him, is stronger and heavier and more stable than the unpredictability and volatility of the storm bucket.
I'm not giving up on the filling of my peace bucket.
