“On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” John 7:37-38My dad was a remarkable man. He was a fun-loving, forth-right, family man. He was a veteran of WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam. He loved the University of Delaware Blue Hens, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Golden Bear, Jack Nicklaus. And he loved to eat… the simple foods… ice cream, grape nuts cereal, and hotdogs or as my dad called them, tube steaks. Towards the end of his life, he found joy in the little things… petting a dog, singing along with Mitch, and his ice, oh how he loved his ice! During those last weeks, I was blessed to spend hours by his bedside reading, reminiscing and sharing glass after glass of crushed ice with him. I took joy in helping him as he took pleasure in the coldness, the crunching, and the refreshing feel it left him with. And those ice snacks always ended the same way, with a duet of “Ahhh.”
This Lenten season may your thirst be quenched with the Living Water, Jesus Christ. May you drink deeply from His well, be filled to overflowing with His loving Spirit, may your faith be refreshed and may you find yourself saying “Ahhh!” Glory be to God.
Loving God, as we continue our journey through Lent, may our thirst be quenched through the living water. Amen.
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