O let all who thirst, let them come to the water.

~John Foley SJ

This week as we move deeper into the Lenten season and our study of Parsons’ book, we’re called out into our deserts to look for living water.  If you are like me, you may wander there often but remain restless and walled in by all sorts of distractions and routine, by circumstances you’ve told yourself are beyond your control.  Responsibilities.  A hectic job.  Mortgages, car payments and college funds.  Resentments and doubt.  Commitments and promises and entrenched patterns, paths you’ve been walking down far too long now to ever consider changing course.  These things affect your prayer life.  They isolate you from your faith community.  Maybe they stand between the person you’ve been and the person God is calling you to be. Continue reading Lent: first clearing →