Loggerhead turtles lay eggs among the sand dunes on beaches. The little turtles dig their way up through the sand and struggle along the beach seeking the ocean waters that wash upon the sand wave after wave. It's a hunger that is born deep within them to seek this sea water, for it is life -- even living water. If they don't find it, they die. But if they find the water, they can live over 100 years and weigh over 600 pounds! If a little turtle gets sidetracked, say it falls into a moat around a sand castle, it goes round and round and gets disoriented and never reaches the water. It dies.
Born deep within all of us is a hunger for living water as well! God created us to be fed by the Bread of Life and nurtured by the Spring of Living Waters, the one God that we know through Jesus Christ…