Faith & Life Inspirational Message

I have no idea where the image came from; I have never thought about this before this time.   Suddenly there popped into my head the curious question, what if I were a drop of water?   It was not raining outside.   I was nowhere near running water.   Perhaps it was God’s gift to me or I really am going crazy!   I prefer to think it was the former.   God gave me a question---albeit a curious question.   What if I were a drop of water?            There are always a couple ways of looking at something: being and doing.   If I were water, that takes care of the being aspect.   If I were water, then I am (be) water.   The “doing” aspect is more intriguing in this case.   If I were water, what would I do?   Of course, the obvious answer is I would get things wet!   So the question is, if I am a single drop of water, what do I want to get wet?   A single drop is not much w...

First it was an email and then a follow-up phone call.   The name I did not recognize.   But as I read the email, clues began to emerge.   The person contacting me was a student in my classes more than three decades ago!   I was not surprised that I did not recognize the name.   He would have been one of twenty or thirty in a class of seven or more classes in my second year of teaching.   There have been hundreds, probably thousands, of students in and out of my life in more than three decades.   Of course, theologically I would affirm that each of us is a unique human being.   Each of us is created in the image and likeness of God.   Sure, all of us “image” the same God.   But we are not “spitting images” of each other, as my grandfather would say.   So David, as I will call him, was not someone whose name triggered my memory bank.   Of course, none of us is a name alone.   There must be tens of thousands of guys na...