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Rain Water Tears and Baptisim ties us closer to God and our Christian faith.
As I sit in my recliner tonight listening to the rain hitting the steal roof my mind begins to think and I relax to the pattering noise.
Rain we truly need in our lives. It cleans the air, water our world, gives nourishment to all of Gods creations. And then we have....
Tears rolling down our faces. These may be tears of joy or tears of sadness. However they are tears of water that cleans our mind and gives us empathy. And then we have ...
Water, the lifeline of life. The same water, tears and rain which reminds us of our baptisms. Cleanings our sole giving us rebirth and forgiveness of our sins.
The next time you see it rain watch the journey of the rain drop. Running into the ground, traveling down a river, heading to a well we draw a cool drink from that provides us with water in baptism and nourishes us so we may cry tears in good times and bad.
The power of rain and water tears and baptism. I can only imagine what my day will be like to have faith and received God in my life and heart.
Baptism, Water, and our World
By William Loader
Water has to do all the hard work: softening, washing, refreshing, sometimes under pressure, changing and reshaping things. Water has shaped continents, carved out great gorges and dug deep valleys. Sometimes it rises and falls endlessly in the cycle of vapour and falling rain. Sometimes it hides deep within the earth’s crust waiting future discovery. No wonder water has been a symbol of life and hope and depth and God.
The droplets of water on a child’s forehead in baptism in a moment of time symbolise an eternity of goodness flowing from the heart of God, a river of love that seeks unendingly to reproduce itself in the lives of people. Some people choose to be blocked pipes allowing no flow in or out, stagnant with their own pre-occupation or guilt or shame. Others want it only one way, receiving the flow, but then blocking its onward course for fear of loss or for fear of giving. Some belong to those dry lands so cut off from the flow that they fill the statistics of the 22,000 people who die daily from extreme poverty.
Everywhere we are looking for water. Our world needs compassion like it needs water. To celebrate baptism is to say again: we want to be where the river flows. We want to wade in its waters and we want to make sure its benefits reach out to all who hunger and thirst – for God or just to survive.
Baptism is a big agenda of generosity, a promise of hope and change, for us and for our world, a sharing in the ongoing life of Christ and the love of God for all humanity. It begins with letting that water sink deeply into our own soil and opening ourselves to the wonder of new life.
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