Living Waters

Father Ryan our priest gave a beautiful homily on the gospel story of the woman at the well who both drinks of the living water of Jesus and, as Fr. Ryan stated, becomes the living well for others. The living waters are present always and I am deeply aware of the living waters in our family who are enjoying good health even as our father arrived at the hospital this past Thursday night having difficulty breathing and found he needed a new pacemaker which was put in on Friday and back home Saturday. Living waters, as Fr. Ryan indicated, are possible for all us to be for one another through saying kind words, forgiving and loving all. So much metaphor to living waters where life in the sea, rivers, ponds can be filled with magnificent beauty. Being a former scuba diver, the ocean, filled with life and underwater noise is minimal, weightlessness creates a lightness of being and sea life abundant, living waters feel free and beautiful. Lightness of being on land is possible when one knows in their heart the living waters that are within. Sometimes the living waters overflow so much that I feel as though I am floating. Now is one of those times.