Food for thought

As summer approaches and most of us find ourselves outdoors, we will experience thirst and a need of water.

May 16, 2014

As summer approaches and most of us find ourselves outdoors, we will experience thirst and a need of water. As humans affected by the material, we will also experience a similar “thirst” for objects or mundane experiences, such as a higher salary, a dream vacation or luxury home.

A post on the Catholic blog Creer Para Ver, or “Believe to See,” challenged the faithful to think about the thirst of others – physical and otherwise. There are places in the world where people have thirst for water but also “thirst for justice,” the March 18, 2008, entry said.

Our thirst then should be similar to God’s thirst to help the poor, and we should work to change systems of injustice that keep the poor from having access to education, proper food and jobs with dignity and proper pay.

We should see Jesus’ thirst on the cross when we see those who have nothing but water collected in potholes as a means to quench their thirst and that of their family, or to water needed crops or wash what little clothes they have.

The post urged the faithful to ask God to give us a spiritual thirst to help others so that it can help us run from our “fictitious material thirst.” --CNS

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