Wonky Holes

John 4:14b -- "but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

image: Mike McCoy/Australian Geographic Magazine

A moving and rolling sand seems to bubble up from the sea bed as a stream of fresh water rushes toward the surface of the ocean. Leaving a halocline, it's easy to see where the salty water is disturbed by the rushing current from the natural fresh-water spring. It's a Wonky Hole. And believe it or not - you CAN drink from it if you catch the water at it's source on the sandy ocean floor.

All along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia you can putter about with your swim fins and see the color, the corals, and the amazing marine life - AND the submarine springs that erupt from the sand below. It's a strange thing to think about and a unique thing to witness. When I think of fresh spring water I don't usually picture the Great Barrier Reef.

The thing is - ages ago glacial ice caps held captive fresh water rivers that used to run along the coast and body of Australia. These rivers were actually kind of buried by the ocean where coral and other critters made a home. Underneath all the colorful sea life there still exists pockets of fresh water - and where the coral is less dense, these waters bottle neck until they can break free through the sediment. It's geographically very interesting - even though it DOES kill off some of the reef. 

What catches my attention about all of this is the pressure it must take for the fresh water to erupt through the sand on the ocean floor. It's not a small amount of energy - tourists can feel the spring - like a soft jet in a hot tub. It WANTS to get out of the sand!

Kind of cool!!

I like that in the book of John - Jesus says that the water he gives us will be like a well that will spring up from us. It won't just flow, or pour, or trickle. It will SPRING! 

I can't help but think of all those Wonky Holes and the sand that seems to dance from the excitement of the fresh water that just bubbles up from underneath it! The light and love of Jesus - the LIFE - that he gives us also springs up! We NEED to share it! We need to let it bubble and dance and get all over the place!

Ya know what we need? We need to be a Wonky Hole for Jesus!!