Stories of Life
Who doesn’t love a story? Hope, conflict, wonder, desperation, loneliness, surprise, love, a hero. Story seems to be wired into our DNA. We all tell them, and we find many ways to do them.
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Here is the enigma; too much water and the land is flooded; too little, and the land becomes parched and barren. The health of the land and its people depends upon just the right amount of water at the right time, and in the right place.
Reflection
“Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become for them, a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’
“The woman said to him, ‘Give me this water, that I may never be thirsty, or have to keep coming here to draw water’.”
– John 4:13,15
Respond
I thank you God, for draughts of cool and refreshing water. I thank you for the gift of Christ, the Living Water, satisfying my thirst for spiritual refreshment and forgiveness. Amen.
Action
There is no time like the present to come to the well.
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Who doesn’t love a story? Hope, conflict, wonder, desperation, loneliness, surprise, love, a hero. Story seems to be wired into our DNA. We all tell them, and we find many ways to do them.
The act of making a pilgrimage – traveling to a sacred place to encounter the divine – is ancient, probably as old as humanity itself. Perhaps the first Christian pilgrimage was that of the Wise Men, men who were not even believers in the Messiah, but who knew that “something” drew them from their homes and studies. Unsure as to what they sought, they found not a someTHING, but a someONE: Christ the Lord.
Reflect, today, upon how willing you are to embrace sacrifice in your own life. No, your sacrifices are not able to save the world by their own merit, but if you face your crosses in life, be they big or small, and if you intentionally and wholeheartedly unite them to the actions of Jesus that first Holy Week, then you can be certain that you will suffer with our Lord. But you can also be certain that your suffering will be transformed by the power of this Holy Week and lead you to a glorious sharing in His triumph over all sin and suffering.
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