
This past month was one of the busiest seasons so far this year.
And people in our house require clean socks and three meals a day, every day! The audacity.
I would bet your life feels much the same. Each in our ways, in different seasons, we are all faced with pressing times.
But here’s what I need you to hear: I wasn’t drained.
I didn’t feel like I was crawling to the finish line.
I was full, showing up to each moment with joy, clarity, and fresh strength.
And no, it’s not because I mastered time-blocking (I haven’t) or finally figured out how to get up before the kids (although that does help, especially when I get to do a devotional and pray while sipping my organic coffee in the dark of the morning).
It’s because I’ve stopped living like my job is to pour myself out, get empty, and hustle to fill up again.
That’s not how Heaven works.
You’ve heard the phrase: “You can’t pour from an empty cup.”
Recently, I said that to someone casually. "You have to fill up your Mama cup!" or something like that.
When I walked away, The Lord nudged me.
I knew the words I said were wrong.
So I went looking for that truth in Scripture..... and it’s just not there.
What I did find?
The Fountain.
Jeremiah 17:13 calls God “the fountain of living waters.”
John 7:38 says, “Whoever believes in Me, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
That’s not a cycle of fill, pour, be empty, run back depleted, fill, pour, be empty, run back depleted…..its a continual flow.

When we live connected to Him, truly and intentionally engaged in our hearts—we don’t run dry.
We don’t white-knuckle our way to fullness.
Rather, we stay under the fountain.
It’s not just about listening to worship music while folding laundry or squeezing in a quick devo while the coffee brews (though I absolutely do those things!).
It’s about the heart posture inside those moments.
They mean nothing without the positioning of the heart (our cup, so to speak).
Ask yourself: Am I truly engaging with Him right now?
Am I letting this moment shift me under the fountain of His presence?
That’s the difference.
These practices of worship, prayer, stillness are not just spiritual “to-dos.”
They are invitations into alignment underneath The Fountain.
They change what the rest of the day feels like because they change where we’re positioned.
And when I feel that shift during times when distraction or pressure starts to pull me away, I ask Holy Spirit to help me come back.
Because that’s what He does!
Jesus said: “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14:26).
He literally reminds us and helps us stay near.
And in Romans 8:26 says, “The Spirit helps us in our weakness.” Even when we don’t have the words or strength, He meets us there.
The world teaches us to grind to be good.
But the Kingdom way is different: John 4:13-14“…Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Do you feel the difference?
One life leaves you constantly running on fumes, and makes emptiness a normal part of the cadence of life.
The other leaves you full, nourished, ready because you’re not the source. You’re simply positioned under the flow.
While I try to avoid too many disclaimers as they can get a little out of hand, I'm going to add this one: this isn't a substitute for, or excuse not to, rest. This is a lifestyle of living in fullness, of which physical and mental rest is a part. That's for another day's discussion.
Psalm 23:5 says "You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows."
So if you’ve been chasing fullness by effort, working hard to empty and refill again and again, I want to gently invite you back to The Fountain, where you can rest and overflow, remaining full all the time.
Romans 15:13 "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."
Be filled, and be blessed, friend!
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