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Pastor Paul's Ponderings: Broad vs. Deep Living Finding sustenance from a deeper source By Rev. Paul A. Fryman, Pastor State Street Methodist Church, 1101 State ST, Bowling Green, KY Thomas Moore, spiritual writer of our day, tells the story of Terry Waite who was the representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1987, when he was in Beirut, he was captured and imprisoned as a hostage by a faction of the PLO. He found himself in that place for 5 long years. Along with other captives, he suffered beatings, isolations and other deprivations. Everything he knew and loved was taken from him. In recalling that episode in his life, Waite often called to mind certain books he had read that sustained him during those long and difficult years of silence and solitude. One day a sympathetic guard gave him a book about slavery in America. He says that he read it slowly and several times, even memorizing certain passages. He thought about the slaves spending their entire lives in captivity, yet without losing their spirit and their humanity. The image of the slave didn't take away his pain, but it did help him bear up under his captivity. Such slaves inspired him and sustained by the image of another rising above bad conditions, helped him survive his. Wells in the Bible speak of the need for people to draw life-giving water for sustenance. It is no mistake that those wells were well known by the nomads of their day. Important events occurred by those wells in Scripture. It is by one of these wells that Jesus met a woman in the heat of the day and said, "Give me a drink." He then went on to speak of the one who can give sustenance from a deeper place. He said to her, "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:14 RSV) Terry Waite found sustenance from a deeper place. The woman at the well found sustenance from a deeper place too. Where are you drawing life-giving sustenance? Is it from a deep well? Sometimes we have to let the bucket go deeper into the well to find that life-giving water, but it is there. I am convinced that there are two ways to live in this world: broadly or deeply. Broad living is to go far and abroad, to glean all the paths of life and taste of all of it's fruits. Broad is not bad, but it may not be best. No, deep is a way to sustain one through thick and thin. Deep living grows roots to sustain us through the storms that will come. Deep feeds the heart, character and stature. Jane Austin did not travel broadly, but her life was one that was deep. Just read her novels. Let me encourage you this week to live deeply in God! In Christ, Pastor Paul A. FrymanSubmitted with permission of author by Annette Richards (ACHS '55), member of State Street United Methodist Church Quote for the Week: "In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." -Albert Camus, Writer This story was posted on 2011-07-17 06:50:33
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