Yesterday we “Riverwalked.” The Riverwalk is a nice area just below street level here that is host a variety of stores, restaurants and more. I think it should be called the “Meandering Riverwalk,” but that’s just my $0.02.
There is something about water that I have always considered magical.
I have always liked rivers, lakes, oceans…you name it.
Seems like people have been living along water for a long time, mostly for practical reasons: we need water to live. It is literally our life blood.
So too for us as Christians. We are people of the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, people of the Jordan River and Sea of Galilee, people in the boat of a the church sent on a journey “up river.” I think one of the reasons I like water so much is because it makes me think of baptism. We died in the water and were given new life in those same waters: flowing water, living water… river water(?). And it is on this same baptismal river, the one that flows from the Tree of Life, that we make our whole Christian pilgrimage, our whole life’s journey.