Anyone thirsty? Parched... Thirsty… Spiritually. I think all of us at some time or another have felt this way. We have been spiritually dehydrated and our souls long for the living water that only Jesus can provide. Like the woman at the well that Jesus meets in Samaria (John 4:1-42), we are tired of drawing water that never really quenches our thirst. We have lived as if it all depended on us. That we are responsible for taking care of our thirst. But Jesus stands before the empty wells of our lives and says: “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink.” John 7:37-38 So, come! Let Him satisfy your thirst. Drink freely of the water of life. And when you do, don’t be surprised to find that rivers of living water will pour out of your heart into the world around you. During this season of “Thy Kingdom Come” we have been praying for friends, family and our community to experience new life in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. Maybe you have already experienced God's Spirit in powerful and profound ways in your own life. Maybe you are secretly wishing that Pentecost would happen in your own life...that YOU would be filled with the Holy Spirit. As we celebrate the feast of Pentecost on Sunday, I would invite you to come expecting that God would pour out his Spirit upon us, our friends, and our community. for we are all thirsty! And then pray that we God’s living waters would flow through us –that we would be emboldened to proclaim his mighty acts in our community and in the world! Blessings,
Matthew+ Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (BCP p. 227) | 
