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Whenever I make a list of things I am thankful for, water is always top on my list.
Clean water to drink and hot water for a shower both became more appreciated after living and traveling overseas.
But my spiritual perspective on the blessings of water has grown. I know that water is what cleanses and saves us (1 Peter 3:20-22, Acts 2:38).
And, we also see that water is personified as Living Water in Christ and through the Holy Spirit (John 4:13-14, John 7:37-39).
We never have to be without that water—the only water that will truly quench our thirst and make us clean. Jesus highlighted this in His conversation with the woman at the well (John 4:14).
Today, take a moment to give thanks for water, in all its forms, and for all its blessings.
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I was dragged, kicking and screaming, from a life of doing. When a friend challenged me to write a song about myself in college, “Better Busy than Bored,” was my motto and a self-fulfilling prophesy. And I have lived that to the max. Many suspect that my health issues, which began in 2009, were a result of my busy lifestyle. Chastised for not taking care of myself, the warnings rang truer and truer the more the days, months, and years passed.
Fast forward a couple of decades from those college years in which I did not sleep. I recently turned forty and I require much more sleep than I used to. I cannot handle the pace of life that I once maintained.
However, I am convinced that this is not merely a byproduct of physical aging. Rather, a spiritual maturing in transition from “doing” like Martha, to “being” like Mary. Because to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven (Eccl. 3).
I am content sitting at the feet of Jesus without a checklist.
Being refuels my doing.
Guilt still tugs at my heartstrings when there is something to be done, but I am thrilled to see others step up and do it—probably better than I would’ve done it anyway.
The Martha in me still stays quite busy. And some of you that know me well think that my Mary should rub off a little bit more on my Martha-ness.
But, for today, I am grateful that God has allowed a bit of that transition to take place. Each of these women have things to teach us and I, for one, still have a lot to learn.