Live-streamed from the Catholic Education Centre
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.
What are you thirsting for?
ponder
Feeling hungry or thirsty isn't difficult. In fact, of all the things that we do as humans, feeling hungry or thirsty is one of the easiest things we do.
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To some extent, that statement might sound a little bit ridiculous because we may have a hard time classifying hunger, thirst or breathing on any sort of scale that has easy on one side and difficult on the other.
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It‘s ridiculous because those three basic bodily needs
probably don‘t belong on that scale at all. They happen automatically and with little conscious decision.
Being hungry or thirsty isn't something we do.
It‘s a built-in survival mechanism that happens over and over again throughout our lives to make sure we nourish ourselves – to make sure we keep ourselves alive.
It‘s so intertwined with our carnal nature that it can overpower and control us, change our mood, or our physical well-being . When we let it get away from us we feel it; in the form of muscle weakness, lack of motivation, or even headaches. These are all signals that we are not doing something we‘re supposed to be doing. We‘re not providing our body with what it needs to function normally.
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Just as we need to provide for the body, so must we nourish the other important parts of our being; our intellectual hunger and spiritual thirst.
scripture
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink."
- John 4: 7
reflect & share
What "wells" have you been filling your bucket from this year?
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What are the things that have become your priorities?
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What are you thirsting for? What have you missed during this time of quarantine and isolation?