This coming Sunday we will follow the sermon with a discussion of the scriptures for the day.
Of course the sermon will kick off thoughts and, maybe, the theme for the discussion but, among other things the Gospel passage includes the simple phrase, “if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple”.
I wonder what that meant to a desert dwelling people in the days before refrigeration. It probably brought up really vivid images, much the same as it brings up to the majority of the world today. According to Church World Service, more than a billion people worldwide lack clean water, and more than 2.1 million people – most of them children – die each year from waterborne disease. Outside of the United States there is concern about the shortage of water through large areas of Asia and Africa. After all, we can live, uncomfortably perhaps, without oil indefinitely but only about three days, and very uncomfortably without water.
See you Sunday,
Bill
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