What do you thirst for

We can live righteously, or we can live like the world. So often we substitute righteousness for self-righteousness. Self-righteousness makes a list of rules. Their righteousness was outward and external but was not genuine on the inside.

They were great at pretending to be something they were not. The culture in this country will write you off, ridicule you, make fun of you, censor you, and call you every name imaginable if you have Christian convictions. God loves to fill the empty. The widow in 2 Kings 4 had lost everything but a little jar of oil. Elisha told her to collect all the jars she could, and the oil did not run out until all the jars were filled. The woman at the well came to Jesus with her life empty but He filled it.

The multitudes were starving, and the disciples wanted to send them away, but Jesus fed them until they were filled, and they had leftovers! Jesus told the story of a man who threw a banquet and invited people to come.

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Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. I felt a hope in me that I had forgot. I had forgotten that there was more to my life than the daily fight to survive. But with Christ in the Eucharist nestled within me, fed by the Sacraments and the Scriptures, I remembered : there is more to this life. I was still physically thirsty and hungry, I still found myself in a daily battle to survive, but being fed with the Bread of Life made the suffering united to the suffering of Christ.

I no longer felt alone. I felt hope. This is what happens to the woman at the well. From what Jesus reveals, we can tell that she has had a tumultuous life thus far — various marriage and affairs in addition to the daily struggle for food and drink. She comes to the well physically thirsty, but she leaves with a much deeper thirst having been quenched.

Was she never thirsty for physical water again? But that thirst, that daily struggle for survival, no longer consumed her. It is not that those thirsts will dissipate when our spiritual thirst is quenched, but we will be less overwhelmed by them. Encountering Christ especially through the Eucharist changes everything. It makes us aware of a thirst more acute than all others.

Tagged as: Gospel of John , Lent. Michele Chronister is a wife, and mother to three little girls and one little one in heaven. She is the author of a number of books, including Handbook for Adaptive Catechesis, the co-author of Faith Beginnings — Family Nurturing from Birth Through Preschool, editor of the book Rosaries Aren't Just for Teething, as well as an assortment of Catholic children's books. In addition to writing, she also homeschools her daughters, and is the social media manager for the Office of Natural Family Planning in the Archdiocese of St.

When her oldest was a baby, she realized that their family life had taken on a sort of monastic rhythm — eat, pray, play, sleep. Prompted by this, she started the blog My Domestic Monastery www. How the Saints Endured Loneliness. Poor Wayfaring Strangers. Catholic Exchange is a project of Sophia Institute Press. Email Login. Catholic Exchange.