We have a very wet set of readings today. The stream Ezekiel sees flowing from the temple and the pool of Bethesda are both life giving and healing. They gladden the city of God as the psalm says. Am I a stream of life-giving water for others? Do I refresh and gladden those I meet, or do I leave them as I found them because I hoard the gifts I’ve been given? God has given me many gifts. I deserve none of them. They have been given to me to give away—to flow out onto the community around me. How well am I doing that? I may need to check that if I have been behaving like a beaver, I’d better break the dam, so I can become that stream of life-giving water that refreshes and renews those around me. Flow river flow!
