Thursday, November 18, 2021
Sometimes water reflects the glory of God,
the Light of the World,
and
what great things we get to see and experience!
Psalm 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
Revelation 21:6
Then he said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.’
Words of Grace For Today
Thirsting.
Thirsting for water.
Thirsting for water to drink …
and to wash with …
and to clean with.
…
There is power in water, great power.
Water in such great abundance, not something that we thirst for can …
Well it can take us by surprise and wash us away …
just ask anyone who has experienced the power of a flood,
like the people in BC this past week.
Many on the roads were surprised by mudslides, made possible by the frozen ground, clear cutting forests on mountain sides and wildfires that left mountain sides bare and unsupported, and then rain like a river from heaven that poured heavier than heavy and did not stop.
Then they were trapped by a mudslide in front of them and a mudslide behind them, if they were lucky. If they were not lucky, well some were hit by a mudslide and buried or washed down the mountain. Or they who were really not lucky were trapped and watched as, or found out that, all their loved ones were either killed or left to die a slow and painful death.
God does not promise us just life or just water. God promises us water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.
This water of life does not take life, it gives life … even to those who are stranded by mudslides.
That is the promise that the Alpha and the Omega provides for us … and it is done.
It is done for us by the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, of everything that is and everything that can be … even time.
Like air that gives life to the blood that flows through our arteries and veins to everything in us, so God brings us breath that brings us life in all creation … and profound joy as we live fully alive as we are created to live.
Now we come to behold the face of God, not in some miracle or mountain top breaking in on us by a Deity so far and away from us until then. Rather we come to behold the face of God (as sacramental mystics have always) in the mundane, obvious things, creatures and events of our daily lives.
Water, living water.
We have plenty pure, clean water, a gift from God, to clean with, to wash with, and to drink our fill from. Like all mundane things, this water came from the systems used to provide water to many communities, from the water pump station that serves as a water fill station for tanks on trailers and in trucks, and as trucks to fill up and then distribute the water to cisterns and tanks where so many people live.
Water, living water.