Ponder the meaning of your body's yearning for water. We seek and receive water from beyond ourselves, because our bodies alone cannot produce what we need to live. Ultimately, we are not self-sustaining. No matter how many self-help books we read or how much we value individualism, the reality of life is interdependence rather than independence. Our physical experience is interrelated with our spiritual lives.
Water reflects an even more fundamental spiritual reality.
When we get separated from God, our spirits thirst for God. Without God, our spirits languish. Today, we live in a society of seekers from within and beyond the church who long to experience God. Fortunately, God constantly seeks us, too. As a deer longs for flowing streams, so our souls long for you, O God . . .