Living Water

Today’s Reflection

The kind of drinking that Jesus invites us to is not the polite, sipping from our teacups with pinkies extended kind of drinking. It’s a drinking that drenches us, that causes rivers of living water to flow out of our hearts.

—Jan L. Richardson, In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection and Prayer (Upper Room Books, 2010)

Today’s Question

How have the “rivers of living water” led to places or people you didn’t expect?

Today’s Scripture

Jesus responded, “If you recognized God’s gift and who is saying to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would be asking him and he would give you living water.”—John 4:10 (CEB)

Prayer for the Week

Lord, Guide me to reflect on—and learn from—the decisions I made yesterday so that they might reshape the longings I have for tomorrow.