Less than a Week

In less than a week students new and old will be returning to the UCA campus. It has been a good summer, but I'm ready for everyone to get back and get into a new academic year. I consider the season's during this time. How each turn of the planet keeps us moving, moving, moving. I think about the notion that what we were created to be is in motion, moving in sync with the creator. Moving to where He leads us. And how each new movement, brings us both to new yet familiar places. Our shepherd leading us to green pastures that we may have been to before but that have had the opportunity in our absence to grow fresh and sustaining grass for us to graze on. I see in my minds eye these fresh pastures and also look for the brooks, rivers and lakes where we might quench our thirst. The watering holes that offer us the opportunity to pause for a cool drink. That simple water that fills us with what we need to live.

This year we will be thematically moving with the "Living Water" that Christ offers. That living water that he first offered to a woman at a Well. Only that living water that he offers comes to us from a place other than a Well. That living water that quench's our thirsts and continues to flow and move in and through us. We are moving with this water and even in our necesary moments of stillness, it continues to flow. Keeping us constantly in motion. My prayer is that as we journey that this living water will be shared and grow into a raging river.