Prayer for Living Water

O God, how we thirst.

      We thirst like the earth

            burning these past days with wildfires.

      We thirst for your cooling, quenching waters

            to run through our own parched places.

We thirst for answers to the violence

in Ivory Coast and everywhere around the world;

                  for ways to assuage the ongoing trauma

of natural disaster’s wreckage;

                  for relief from constant worry

about all the many woes to which we are witness.

O Christ, fill our cups with living water

      so we might revel in the crocus’s declaration of life;

      so we might dance wildly with the wind in springing branches;

      so we might know that resurrection IS—in the midst of death and fear.

O Spirit, help us to draw from

the deep, deep well that is you

            so we may drink

            and share that living water with all.