This heat is intense. I always seem to forget how powerful the summer is and how powerful (even opressive) the heat can become.
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On a different note, I spent some time this morning writing a talk for my youth group (only about 10 minutes in lenght) about the "Spirituality of Water". I found it to be really interesting and while highlighting 2 scriptural passages (Jacob's well- the Samarian Woman and the "Those who drink of me will have a water of life flowing through them") I realized how closely Jesus indentifies the work of the Holy Spirit with water. He says water, or the spirit, will flow "through you" and presumabely, into or towards others (wellspring). I like the idea of Holy Spirit as overflow.
My basic outline:
1. Water is a force of desctruction (floods)
ALso lack of water as source of destructino (drought)
2. Water is Purification
"Lord cleans me of my sins, and wash me of my iniquities)
3. Water as Holy Spirit- as live giving- as wellspring
4. Water in Sacraments
5. Water in Liturgy
"Through this mingling of water and wine, may we come to share in His divinity"
among many other instances...
6. Water that gushed forth from the side of JEsus on the cross.
"let them come to Water"
h20!
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