Father Snort

People were and are in need of the Living Water which Jesus offers and is. Jesus is the living water which to give strength to the weary, to give growth to our souls, to satisfy our thirst, and to carry us safely along our way, and fills us with life which never ends. We serve as beacons to others to guide them to the living water of Jesus. They need us, and we need each other.

Being born from above, we become like children again...spiritually speaking. We are God's children, and being born from above, we accept and live into who we truly are. As children, we delight in the world with childlike wonder; we trust in God; we need no great accomplishment to be of value. Our value comes simply because we are God's children.

Jesus could do anything he wanted, and yet what he wanted most was to do the will of God. He trusted in God's way, even in the wilderness, to guide him, rather than rely on his own spectacular abilities.

They aren't really dead are they, the saints? Through Jesus' resurrection, we are granted resurrection which we celebrate at Easter. During Lent, we remember our mortality and sin, taking a good honest look at ourselves. For the same reason, Lent is a joyful season.

Sacramental moments, when God is suddenly revealed to us, are blessed times when we are encouraged, renewed, and sometimes afraid as God's life and love is made manifest to us. These moments are not meant to last forever; we aren't meant to stay in these moments. We are meant to go, strengthened by these moments, to love and serve others in Jesus' name.

We're defined not by what we do, but by who we love and those who love us. From Genesis, we are defined by our relationship to God and each other. We are to be the beauty of Love we were made to be.

God placed within us the ability to be forces for good in the world. To live into our potential as forces for good, there are things we simply must give up. Hatred, looking upon others for the purpose of arousal, living only for ourselves. We are called to live as salt and light, as repairers of the breach.

Jesus sets us free to go in peace. He shows up at any time and in any way, offering for us to lay down our burdens (or the things to which we have enslaved ourselves) and become a new creation, following him and his way of life.

A narrative of American blessing is that each generation will be blessed more than the one before it through greater wealth...basically more stuff, the goal being to alleviate suffering.

People now rush about trying to fulfill this narrative and some acquire a great deal, but through these efforts, we don't achieve the blessings of love, faith, hope, peace, confidence, and contentment.

As disciples of Jesus, "fishers of people", our net is the Gospel of Jesus and his way of life, peace amidst suffering, contentment without great wealth, and confidence of eternal life in God even in death.

Come and see! Children love saying these words to anyone who will hear about things that excite them. Jesus' early disciples had this same exuberance concerning Jesus. That seems lacking nowadays. For what are we looking in Jesus? What do we love about Jesus? What makes us want to say "come and see?"