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Topic: Water (04/26/04)
TITLE: At the Water's Edge By Bonnie Levesque 05/03/04 |
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Was it the peace of the moment that held her? Was it the pleasant, loving caress of the warmth of the sun? Only, if the waves could wash away all the regrets and all the disappointment and bring with the incoming tide all of the lost dreams of her youth. For there she would stay throughout the entire visit at the water's edge. Just standing there, looking out to the east as one wave after the other crashed and then tenderly rolled toward her in a hypnotic cadence of white foam as the sun walked across the sky.
I would go down to the water's edge and softly put my hand on her's and say,"Mother. It's time for us to go. We must go now. It's starting to get dark. We must go home." She would just look at me with that upturned smile she had, almost like the silly, sly look of a child who's going to do it anyway,anyhow. She'd look back at the ocean's depth and keep on standing right there as if I'd never been there. Not saying a word. It was so hard to have to tell her we must go
for she seemed so happy and so peaceful there at the water's edge.
What can we learn each day from the little things about each other?
Who of us is not drawn at the water's edge?
What in our lives is not worn smooth as the river bottom stone with our life tides?
When is water not primary to each day of our life?
Where is water not the evidence of life nor is it not necessary for life?even on planets afar.
In the book of John, as Jesus is talking to the Samaritan woman at the well,......."and He would have given you living water."
"but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."