Thirsty? :15 March 2009

Dear Friends,

For most of my life I’ve lived near water – Lake Michigan. The few years I did not, it wasn’t very far away and just knowing it was within easy driving distance was such a comfort. I am drawn to water – its peacefulness on a calm day, the sight of waves crashing over the piers when the wind is strong, the changing colors as clouds drift by, the reflection of city lights on its surface at night and of the sun at it’s rising in the morning. Water is a powerful element that captures my attention, even draws me to behold its beauty and fury. I am enchanted with its flowing rhythms that continually change our landscape.

Water has the quality of quenching our physical thirst, but what about our spiritual thirst? What do we truly thirst for in the depths of our hearts?

As we read the story of the “Woman at the Well” (John 4:5-42), we learn of spiritual thirst. It’s not a thirst that will be satisfied by our drinking in or surrounding ourselves with more “stuff”. It is that deep longing in the core of our being that can only begin to be satisfied by encountering the Sacred One. When we find the courage to enter into the silence and holy ground of our core being, we open ourselves to the cleansing, healing, comforting, renewing waters of pure Love. It is here we uncover just what it is that we truly thirst for and…what truly matters. Deep within we become immersed in the rhythmic movement of the Sacred and allow our inner landscape to be reshaped and transformed. And we can emerge refreshed, renewed and peaceful knowing we can return again and again to that place of life-giving water.

For what do you thirst? Ready to take the plunge?

Peace on the Journey