"From the heights we leap and flow, to the valleys down below, Sweetest urge and sweetest will, to go lower, lower still."

If you follow a river or creek to its source it will usually take you up. You may climb and face steep paths as you try to find the water’s source. When you reach that top, you look out and see all the beauty from the heights. Don’t you almost ache to bring someone else up? Someone who has never seen this view, this outlook, this magnificent creation. At the top, you almost forget about the climb up and all the struggles. You only think of getting more people to see life from this vantage point. Follow the river up and the river will take you down lower. Lower still because you will search out those who need to make this climb and see.

I have followed the Delaware River from its starting point up in NY and been amazed at how clean and clear it is. As you follow the river down it is clean enough to float on tubes in the New Hope, NJ area. As you enter the Philadelphia area, it is brown and deep and dirty. The last place I would want to swim. The river is always changing and as it gets further away from its source it becomes contaminated by the world. As the river takes you lower, you follow its currents. You have no control over where you are going and it will take you to the most needy. Always be willing to go lower, to serve more - even if the water seems dirty or cloudy. You may be led to the kitchen of a lonely "at home mom" or a brokenhearted widow, or a starving child in Peru.

Prayer: Dear God, show me your magnificence, let me not be able to hold in what you have shown me. May I never hold back from sharing the great and marvelous things you have done for me. Lord take me lower, as the water always goes lower as if it is bowing down to your greatness, let me bow down lower. As I am just a drop in the river, use your currents to take make me where you will. Only let me serve you and be willing to go lower.