Only water can quench eternal thirst. But each generation picks up that water using different containers with different handles.

[Begin your sermon by putting your hands in a pitcher of water, then pulling them out and letting the water drip down so that the congregation can see and hear it.]

Is there anything else as miraculous as water? Search the cosmos for other signs of life. So far, planet Earth is the only blue planet. It is the vast oceans of our world that have made it possible for all the life forms we know to develop on our planet. The first creation story in Genesis begins with its feet wet. Before any other creating can occur, God must gather the waters and separate a heavenly dome out of them. We cannot perceive even the primordial beginnings of life without water. Water is…