Tuesday, September 13, 2005

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Water

These rusty pipes can be found on high pastures, bringing water from a spring to a trough, sometimes hewn from a single large log, for the cows to drink. We often fill our Sigg bottles with this water, and it is always cold and good!

Life is a little like water. It flows and flows ... until it is exhausted. It can be beautiful and clear, providing refreshment to those it comes into contact with. I've become more aware of how precious is life, since being told I have ALS. A disease for which there is no cure, nor known cause, it is always terminal, and usually runs its course within 4 years or so. As of today, I've had ALS symptoms for one year.

Flowing clear and clean water also reminds me of the Living Water that Jesus offered the woman at the well in John 4. Jesus used a picture of the most important and beautiful life-sustaining substance there is ... to show that there is something even much more important, and that while it is freely given, only He can provide it to us!

I pray that Jesus' Living Water will be accepted by many, so that we will share it together, without end, when life's water, good as it can be, is exhausted for each of us, as it inevitably must be.