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Water in the Desert
A Lenten Reflection by Fr. Dave Foxen, MSC
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart USA Province305 S. Lake Street, PO Box 270 Aurora, IL 60507 (630) 892-2371 [email protected]
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In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers. Isaiah 43, 18
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You cannot walk through the desert and not think of water!
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Perhaps the absence of pools,rivers, and lakes makes us evenmore aware of the meaning ofwater in a land that appears hostileto the thought of moisture.
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Water becomes a symbol of God’scompassion and love which seemso absent in our world’s distortedvalues and apparent lack of caringfor one another.
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But in the desert,as in our lives,the signs ofwater, of God’slove, are everywhere for the one who sees.
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Over thousands of years, water,even in small amounts, has formedthe contours of the land, worndown granite, created canyons andwashes.
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Washes are fascinating, for theyare dry and filled with sand andboulders. But the carved banks andthe piled boulders tell of rushingtorrents of flash floods or long dryrivers.
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The plants of thedesert have learnedto treat water as the precious source oflife. No drop ofmoisture is wasted.
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Some plants drop leaves to conserve water.
Are there any habits we need to drop inorder to be able to accept the life-givingwater of God's love in the desert of ourlives?
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Along earthquakefault lines watersometimes seeps tothe surface, formingthe lush abundanceof an oasis.
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In the desert you cannot think interms of the present moment oreven a limited number of years.
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Life in the desert moves slowly,
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the land and the plants are patient,seeds sometimes wait many yearsfor the opportunity to be moistenedand experience renewed life.
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What once was may never come again.
Where there is now only sand and rock
may one day produce life.
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The desert waits and does notmeasure itself in terms of what itproduces or does not produce.
How do we measure ourselves? Others?
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The desertis open towhat maybe or whatmay neverbe.
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We are amazed at how water in the desert is like God’s compassion
and love!
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God’s love is patient, slowly and surprisingly bringing forth new lifefrom forgotten seeds,
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appearing in the wrenching traumas of our lives, sometimes seeming to recede and hide but patiently forming and contouring the landscape of the human heart.
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Our Lenten journey is a desert journey seeking out the life-giving water flowing in torrents and trickling from the baptismal font.
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Photo Credits• Slide #1: The Killpecker Sand Dunes of the Red Desert, by the Bureau of
Land Management. Photo is in the public domain. (link)• Slide #2: Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by
Pravit. (Own work) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons (link)
• Slide #3: Sand and Desert in Death Valley, by John Sullivan (link)• Slide #4: Beach Sand Background by Andrew Schmidt (used for several
slides as part of the background) (link)• Slide #5: Ripples on Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, from the website of the
National Park Service (link)• Slide #7: Desert dunes by Wikigab (link)• Slide #9: Golden Canyon, from the website of the National Park Service (
link)
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Photo Credits• Slide #10: Bisnaga by Teodoro S Gruhl (link)• Slide #11: Bisnaga by Teodoro S Gruhl (link); Colorful Cactus by Vera Kratochvil (
link); Desert Blooms by Andrew Schmidt (link); Prickly pear cactus, from the website of the National Park Service (link)
• Slide #13: Painted desert Arizona by Joyradst (link)• Slide #15: Prickly pear cactus, from the website of the National Park Service (
link)• Slide #16: Colorful Cactuses by Vera Kratochvil (link)• Slide #17: Single Water Drop by Petr Kratochvil (link)• Slide #18: Desert landscape with saguaro cactii (Carnegiea gigantea) in Agua
Fria National Monument, Arizona by BLM photo (link)• Slide #19: Desert palm at an oasis on the San Andreas Fault, McCallum
Pond, by Fr. David Foxen, MSC• Slide #20: Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang Uyghur AutonomousRegion by Pravit.
(link)
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Photo Credits• Slide #21: Desert of Akakus, by Jean-Pierre MALAVIALLE (Desert of Akakus)
[FAL], via Wikimedia Commons (link)• Slide #23: Borrego Palm Canyon, a stream flowing down the canyon in
Anza Borrego State Park, by Fr. David Foxen, MSC• Slide #24: Windmill, by Fr. David Foxen, MSC• Slide #26: Slide #7: Desert dunes by Wikigab (link)• Slide #27: The Namib Desert at Sossusvlei by Teo Gómez (link) • Slide #28: Dune scenic, from the website of the National Park Service (link)• Slide #29: The Killpecker Sand Dunes of the Red Desert, by the Bureau of
Land Management. Photo is in the public domain. (link)• Slide #30: Bisnaga by Teodoro S Gruhl (link)• Slide #31: Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, from the website of the National
Park Service (link); Painted Desert Badlands, Photographed by Doug Dolde at the Petrified Forest National Park in April, 2009 (link)
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Photo Credits• Slide #32: Storm over the Painted Desert, Petrified Forest National Park, By
National Park Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons (link)• Slide #33: Desert – Inner Mongolia (w:User:pfctdayelise) (Image taken by
me using Casio QV-R41) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons; Edited by Fir0002 (link)
• Slide #34: late afternoon on Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, from the website of the National Park Service (link)