Thirsting for Goodness

Comfort the sorrowing; instruct the ignorant; visit those in prison; feed the hungry----who is equal to such things?  But the Spirit of Jesus, who dwells in us, does all things well. 

We need to allow Him free reign in us, removing those things which stand in His way.  Did not Jesus say, "From his belly will flow streams of water"?  His only requirement was that we be thirsty enough to come to Him, the Source of Living Water:  Blessed are they that thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.  But even the thirst is a gift from God.

Here, "Justice" is not a legal term, but a spiritual one meaning "righteousness," or "goodness."  Those who thirst for goodness will be satisfied, and out of them will flow rivers of goodness.  Sirach 24 tells of a person who "...sought to water his own little garden, and the rivelut became a stream, and the stream became a river, and the river flowed out to water the lands." 

If we seek to water our own souls with the goodness of God, we will become like rivers of living water in the desert of a thirsty world.  Let us begin....