I did wake up in the middle of that big thunderstorm last night, BOOM BOOM BOOM. I got up to check the dripping, DRIP DRIP DRIP, conveniently right into the washer, haha, from my ongoing overhead leak… I removed the plastic from the A/C so not unexpected, rainy hot weather…  Maybe I should just put a complete hole in the ceiling to fill the washer, LOL, but municipal water is cheap enough for laundry, and cleaner than rainwater plus roof crud. Crud Crud Crud, but purified thru my drywall roof, hmmm…

I’ll explain more about the roof later, but this IS a devotion about Jesus as Living Water, not rain water or roof overflow (cruddy). LIVING WATER, not purified water for drinking, because Jesus never sinned. Living Water, not stagnant water, because Jesus flows. Living Water not dead water, because with Jesus in us, LIFE GROWS. 

Yes back to my leaking roof, well today IS the day of set up for construction science experiment phase #1- plugging a small shingle roof hole right over my washer! Well I never saw that before, geez… could it be the source? Experiment part one is gooey sealant injected in by a new to me friend and construction guy who is ALSO a pastor and church-planter… WOW, EXCITING!  He said folks are surprised by his dual occupation but on the job site they start chatting about life and the Lord much of the day. He says what we all must know, folks these days don’t have a church background, never went to much Sunday school, don’t own a Bible. 

Well, I’m going to be scientifically skeptical about this nail hole as sole hole, but it is worth patching, then see if rainwater down the A/C siding gaps (maybe) is next experiment… so, worth the hole experiment and he is going to re-caulk my window too. I might get the garden hose up there to test it later. 

Well, as happy as I am about potential no DRIP, I am super excited about a NEW project too, he will cut a hole in my gutter so I can install a RAIN BARREL, WOOHOO. I have been dreaming of one for years. YEARS YEARS YEARS! I will create the rain barrel, I have the parts, but needed the expert to cut the metal… Fun! FUN FUN FUN! Feed the flow to the flowers!

So today, under the overhang, out of the rain, on the proposed barrel, I left this Pastor Patcher – or Patcher Pastor – many extra Bibles, if he needed for handing out to anyone. I said to the Pastor Patcher to “Keep the Flow flowing”… FLOW FLOW FLOW. They are wrapped in plastic against any rain, and the plastic I used said “purified water” – ha, that’s how God works to trigger my writing, it’s not like I can help DRIP DRIP DRIP of an idea on my brain, but up to me, up to us to collect these thoughts of God in our Living Water Barrels and redirect the water as Spirit out to others. FEED FEED FEED. It’s OK in our leaking lives to feed while being fed.

Jesus is Living Water, Loves to move! And He will find the tiniest of holes in you (cracks) to wash through the soul!

And WHAT DOES JESUS DO, in us? PLUGS THE ESCAPE HOLES IN YOUR SOUL, so that water keeps flowing in then gets directed out thru our cracks, purposefully,  just because. Jesus NEVER will let us run dry. Jesus wants to rehydrate often, continually, forever. FLOWING FLOWING FLOWING. 

Cool…

Well, I’ve dripped long enough here, time to hit send and let you go flow…

You know what is best? Go with the flow. Go FOR the flowing. Drink in the Living Water of Jesus. Soak it all in. Forgiveness Forgiveness Forgiveness. Forever Forever Forever. 

AMEN!!!

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John 4:10-12, 13-14

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you LIVING WATER.”  …  Jesus said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a FOUNTAIN of WATER springing up into EVERLASTING LIFE.”