Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent
God split the hard rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as from the great deep.
Psalm 78:13
and gave them drink as from the great deep.
Psalm 78:13
Yesterday it rained; today I look out on a landscape covered with snow. Water is amazing, the only element that can naturally be found in all three states: solid, liquid and gas. And, as I learned recently, the only element that expands when it becomes a solid. Snow crystals take up more space than water droplets, ice takes up even more space.
Even before creation was called into being, God’s wind swept over the face of the waters.
In the wilderness, God gives people water from the hard rocks. Along the road, Jesus offers people living water—a gift that will become within them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life. On my Lenten path, I will keep my eyes open for the expansive gift of God’s thirst assuaging promise.
