Make me a mento in a bottle of cola

Have you ever dropped a mento sweet into a bottle of cola?  It's not something to do inside (unless you really don't like the person whose house it is). The reaction is great fun, a spectacular energetic fountain of bubbles firing high into the air which can even persuade the sceptical that science can be fun.  It's joyful; it's expansive; it definitely reaches the parts that an ordinary glass of cola wouldn't reach.

The image occurred to me this week.  Isn't that what followers of Jesus should be praying for?  Asking that the Holy Spirit will drop like a mento in the often closed bottle of the church?  Bringing joy, bubbles and refreshment.  Shaking things up.  Covering the ground.  Not allowing the complacent to sit there saying there's no point in trying as nothing ever changes. 

Shouldn't we also, as followers of Jesus, be praying that we would be mentos in the cola of our localities - bubbling up over injustice, hardship, despair ?

After the outpouring the bottle's half empty.
What do we do then?
Go back to sit at Jesus' feet, asking to be filled up again, ready for the next mento-experience.