Water

 Where is the living water?

For us it starts here

I was thinking today that the choice of my baptism was not mine.

I was lucky enough to have my faith handed down to me,

Unlike the early Christians

who started it all,

-many who suffered

for what I was given.

Are the banks of the Saddle River so different from the Jordan?

In the gospel today Naaman is told by the Prophet to wash in the Jordan 7 times.

If I was told by a prophet to wash here, would I go?

Or would I be angry like Naaman,

thinking there a bigger and better rivers?

Or would I realize that it is not the river,

but the water itself

that will heal me

Because it is God's living water

in which I would wash

that would make me

whole

and

holy.