Camping's Calm At Last

My mother says it always takes a few days to settle in when you are camping, and then all of the work of it pays off.

And that is how I feel on this third morning on the lake, my last day here.

And so after breakfast I pulled my lounge chair up to the edge of the water, and felt the cool windy air sweep across the lake and into my lap.




And I opened my book, the Liturgy of the Hours, to read the most amazing words, words that spoke to me literally right where I was, relaxed and drinking in the waters of the lake that surrounded me.

From an instruction by St. Columban, abbot:

My dear brethren, listen to my words. You are going to hear something that must be said. You quench your soul's thirst with drafts of the divine fountain. I now wish to speak of this. Revive yourself, but do not extinguish your thirst. Drink, I say, but do not entirely quench your thirst, for the fountain of life, the fountain of love calls us to him and says: Whoever thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

Understand well what you drink. Jeremiah would tell us; the fountain of life would himself tell us: For they abandoned me, the fountain of living water, says the Lord.

The Lord himself, our God Jesus Christ, is the fountain of life, and accordingly he invites us to himself as to a fountain, that we may drink. Whoever loves him, drinks him; he drinks who is filled with the Word of God, he drinks who loves him fully and really desires him. He drinks who is on fire with the love of wisdom.




In Awe Once Again,
Ronda

Location:Jordan Lake