Living Water

Whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. ~Jn 4:14

The wells of our souls need a well digger; they must be cleaned, freed from everything earthly so that the water tables of rational thoughts that God has placed there may produce streams of pure and sincere water. As long as dirt blocks the water tables and obstructs them, the secret current, the pure water cannot flow. ~Origen, quoted in Days of the Lord, Vol. 2, Lent

Dear Lord, make me a diligent well digger so that Your living water may always spring up within me as a fountain of everlasting life. Amen.