Ezekiel is my favorite of all the prophets in the Bible. He uses such vivid imagery to describe the glory of the presence of God and today's first reading is one of my favorite of his images. (Ez 47:1-12) Ezekiel sees water flowing from the eastern wall of the temple. As he follows this trickle of water eastward it grows to be ankle deep, and then knee deep, waist deep and eventually becomes a large raging river. What an amazing image for God's life and His grace. What begins as the smallest of all forays out into the world becomes a generous outpouring unto the whole world. Water we know is an image of life, all life depends upon it. May this small trickle of grace (God's life at work in us) give us hope that if we but follow tiniest outpouring of His love and grace, than we will find it in super abundance.