The Caller's Spring

Samson was legendary, renown for exploits of incredible strength – killing a lion with his bare hands, slaughtering a thousand assailants with a donkey jawbone, ripping apart the city gates of his foes, and cracking apart the pillars of a pagan temple destroying his captors at their own victory party.

But the other day I discovered a different kind of Samson tale that had escaped my notice – even in my three years of researching biblical water stories.

Wonders of Water at the Olympic Games

The past twelve days it has been exciting to watch the best swimmers in the world compete in the London Olympics, setting at least nine new world records. And the most decorated Olympian in history made his emphatic mark in the pool.

These athletes make it all look so easy, but, in fact, they have to exert tremendous energy propelling their bodies through water that is 784 times more dense than air. The same is true for the synchro-swimmers, sailors, rowers, kayakers and those tigers of the pool, the water-polo players.