Today’s reading comes from Alexander Stuart Baille and his famous work, “Seven Words.” The excerpt used is “I Thirst” in which Baille mines the spiritual implications of Jesus’ very human words from the cross. The essay chronicles the many ways in which humans try to fill their ultimate need for fulfillment coming empty apart from a relationship with God. The challenge comes in the final paragraph and is pointed, especially for those of us who quickly connect with thirsting for God but some times forgot that thirst demands expression.
Humanity needs to get away from the world of “things as they are” into the the world of “things as they ought to be.” This means that men and women must learn to live for others. It is only when we can live a life of self-forgetfulness that we get our truest joy out of life. One needs to keep on thirsting because life grows and enlarges.
Today, find joy in a phone call made, a letter written, or a message sent. Today thirst for opportunity to bring joy from the joy you have found in God’s love. Today and all the next days may we thirst for more of God in us.
Grace and Peace