The Blow Hole~
A Lookout, Honolulu HI
About a month ago as I was on vacation, I visited a familiar spot that I once used to go. I never used to like going to this place because it brought back a lot of memories that at the time, I had to completely forget. But as they say, time allows you to revisit certain places and moments in life to perhaps learn a lesson (some places you need not go back to) but I realize that this was one of those places where I needed to visit once again…
I asked God to speak to me as I stared blankly at the ocean. Suddenly, a surprising gust of water came spewing out of a blow hole lodged in the cliffs. God immediately said, “Lexi, you are like a blow hole to the people in your life.”
It was so sudden how God said it too, as if He was anxious to tell me this and was waiting patiently for the blow hole to make it’s mark. I was so intrigued by this blow hole and made some personal observations:
- The force of the waves did not necessarily determine the size of the water spout. How the water came, did however.
- Some spouts were small and others very large.
- The blowhole was small.
I got home after that, eager to google “Blow hole” and learn more about them.
In geology, a blowhole is a cavity located at the end of a sea cave which exits above the cave. When a wave enters the mouth of the cave it will be funneled up towards the blowhole, which can result in quite spectacular blasts of water from the top of the blowhole if the geometry of the cave and blowhole and state of the weather are appropriate. (Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowhole_(geo)
It is quite obvious what the message was behind this unique metaphore. Waves are people (they are like people who come and go into your life) and if you’re a blow hole (like me) than depending on the heart of a person, they will be translated into a spout of water. The purer the heart, the more spectacular they “blow up” in their lives, the least receptive of heart, the smaller the spout. Likewise, I believe God determines the force of them coming into my life, whether it’d be as light as an “aquaintance” or as forceful as a “significant relationship” I believe people come into one’s life at different speeds and level of impacts, at times too, leave with different levels of forcefulness based on how it impacts our lives. But like how I observed, how forceful a wave comes does not determine the size of the water spout – but other factors come into play.
Blow holes aren’t that big, they’re actually pretty small, meaning, for the most part the role I play in other’s lives could be a small role – but if they consider the “smallness” of my role to be of great value and significance, than they’ll realize that out of something seemingly small can come great things!
God has just reassured me time and time again that I am someone who adds value to others by propelling them forward and up. Some won’t see it and some will – some won’t recieve it, and others will. Regardless who comes and goes and who takes notice or comes to the realization that they just encountered a blow hole, they will be benefitted – to the magnitude they are benefitted is up to them. 
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