John Dunne wrote about some early Spanish
sailors who reached the continent of South America after an arduous voyage. The
fleet sailed into the headwaters of the Amazon, an expanse of water so wide the
sailors thought they were still at sea. It never occurred to them to drink the
water, since they expected it to be salt water, and as a result some of these
sailors died of thirst.
That scene of men dying of thirst even as their
ships floated on the world’s largest source of fresh water is in many ways a
metaphor for our age. Is it possible that many people starve to death
spiritually while all around them is life-giving nourishment? Is it possible
that all around us are the footprints of God and rumors of transcendence in
places we never thought of looking? And that if we lived with more awareness of
the divine, the eyes of our hearts open to those mysteries and wonders, we
might experience God in meaningful and life transforming ways?
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