West Cocoa Chat

I just got off the phone (1:30pm EST) with one of our good friend, Lee. Her 16 year old niece, Kaley Riggle has been rushed to Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando. Kaley has a "permanent shunt" in her brain to release pressure due to a brain tumor she developed a couple of years ago. She woke up this morning to blurred vision and a severe headache.

The prognosis isn't good as they may have to remove the permanent shunt and this could leave her in a vegetated state or worse, kill her. Please pray for Kaley and her family.

I read an article earlier this week (http://www.thehindu.com/2007/08/06/stories/2007080656271400.htm) that that spoke of a project to drill through the Earth’s Crust, shoot cold water down the well hole onto the super-heated rock, and then used the resulting steam as a nearly “inexhaustible” source of power to drive steam turbines to generate electrical power. Here is a quote from the article:

“Scientists say this geothermal energy, clean, quiet and virtually inexhaustible, could fill the world’s annual needs 2,50,000 times over with nearly zero impact on the climate or the environment.”

How about that blog fans – a virtually “inexhaustible” source of energy. It seems we’ve always been on the search for “inexhaustible” sources. It reminds me of the Samaritan woman at the well with Jesus in John 4:13 -14

4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again;
4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

I can flash back to my days of playing basketball on a hot summer day on an outdoor court in the hot Florida sun to know what my response would have been if someone had offered me an “inexhaustible” source of water that would forever quench my thirst. It would have been just like the Samaritan woman’s answer, “I’ll take some of that please.”

But family we know that Jesus wasn’t talking about “wa-wa” kind of water. Proverbs 4:23 says:

4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

The “spring of life” in us is the Holy Spirit, an “inexhaustible” source of spiritual energy. Jesus is calling us to live a victorious life not by following a set of rules and “regs” but by tapping into, drilling if you will into our heart through prayer, study, and worship. Think of it family, when life throws us curveballs (hopefully ones better than the one Nationals Pitcher Mike Bacsik threw to Barry Bonds last night) we’re not on our own when we face them. We can call on an “inexhaustible” source of energy to live victoriously.

Have a great day family.

// posted by cwinwc @ 5:47 AM