Wherever the river goes

Rhona Cathcart March 13, 2018 0 0

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Ezekiel 47: 9

9 Wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish, once these waters reach there. It will become fresh; and everything will live where the river goes.

I was recently invited to participate in a blessing of the River Don for the local Angling Association. I learned a good bit about local fish and other river creatures while preparing. Rivers are extraordinary things. Arteries of life which connect land and sea. No wonder they make such a good metaphor. 

In the frozen heights the melt begins

What was fixed, stony, harsh, 

begins to loosen, to shimmer, to flow. 

Unfreeze our hearts, Lord

Fill us with your life-giving, 

love-finding vitality

That we might feel 

the transformation all around us, 

the transformation within us, 

as the freshness of the Spirit washes all our debris away. 

Amen.