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I’m sure it’s not surprising that in getting this blog ready to launch and thinking about what it means to be a blogger – putting thoughts out there for anyone to read – I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the theme. The bigger theme, of course, being vocation and call but also the underlying theme of water. So, imagine what it was like to “get away from it all” last week for a family vacation only to find it creeping up on me anyway.

We went to the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. I hadn’t expected that water theme to follow me there - It was the big mountains I was focused on. But it turns out that the water in the ever present streams and waterfalls of that amazing spring-filled place were, literally, all around me.

It was on our last day in the Park that I was able to snap this photo and it hit me. In the midst of water that has probably rushed these banks for hundreds or thousands of years, a sign of growth, hope, and new life. One small sprig of green grass rather unexpected in this place. But why not expect it…we’ve just experienced Easter, after all.
 
I invite you to join me in reflecting on this photo for yourself.
Where are there signs of new life for you?
Where do you see signs of God’s movement in your life?
In the rushing water of your own life, what has been the symbol of growth? Did you expect it?