Issue 4: Living Water “Whoever drinks the water I shall give,” Christ tells the Samaritan woman in John 4, “will never thirst.” In a culture which often disdains the possibility of everlasting fulfillment, Christ’s words might strike us as fanciful. To hope for perfect satisfaction in anything, it seems, is too much to ask for.
By Nikko Wheeler Water has been essential throughout most of my life. As a kid, my dad was in the Navy. He was stationed in Panama City Beach, working at the Experimental Diving Unit. When he wasn’t working, we’d go to the base pool, where we spent much of our time submerged underwater, practicing
By Madeleine Roberts When we are lost in the woods the sight of a signpost is a great matter. –C.S. Lewis He called it joy— An almost-forgotten state of the spirit Wearied by the humdrum And rubbish held in common with the world Dreaming in a shade of morning That is not for the poet
By Terry Culpepper In the wake of Pope Benedict XVI’s death and passage into eternal life, it seems to me rather natural to consider his book, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life. Even though it is a dense academic work originally written for his graduate students, the then-Joseph Ratzinger offers us many reflections that we ought
By Madeleine Roberts My soul cried out for living water, and I had grown accustomed to the thirst. In a foreign place, You meet me alone and hold me above the river. Gather me into Your fold. Hold me still in Your embrace. Let me know the peace of a day spent quietly in Your
By Jack Moore An elderly man sits on his front porch, overlooking an old garden filled with azaleas. They have just passed their prime and are going to wilt soon. These will be the last azaleas he will see in the garden. His wife, who planted and cultivated them, passed this April after they had
By Sophia Eberwein “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke Him and said to Him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And He awoke and rebuked
By Madeleine Roberts You’ve mistaken me for Righteousness I fear A woman on her own (She thinks she’s on her own) Will wager with the devil When she fights alone (She thinks she fights alone) Some words kick up Mountains in the mind And that’s how they’re true You’ve mistaken me for More than I
By Walker Haynes The connection between water and life is more or less self-evident. Drinking water is essential for life, and all farms need the water of rain or irrigation to grow food. Bodies of water on Earth are teaming with life, from the largest whale to the smallest plankton. Very rarely, however, is the
