Father's Day

I wish we still celebrated Father's Day with a whip cream fight.  We don't and I miss having a big family with little kids.  Today was too quiet.  Cooper was with his birth family in Boise making connections and memories, but not with us.  Wilson is in St George disconnecting with anything meaningful.    Eliza spent the weekend at a lifegaurding class.  As a true introvert, she will need a lot of alone time to recover from all that social interaction.   Max is rejecting all family interactions such as family pizza night or time on the boat because he feels we are trying to control him.  Marcos craves interaction but drives people away with his inability to understand appropriate social interaction and personal space.  This is the messy middle.  I know it ends well.

Today in sacrament meeting I was thinking about water.  Water is what our body needs, but we have a lot of beverage choices:  chocolate milk, soda, lemonade, energy drinks, tea,  etc.  All of these promise to quench thirst  The only thing that satiates our thirst is water.   All the other beverages are water with a bunch of added ingredients.  Water sustains life.

Jesus Christ is the Living Water.   We often try anything else but Him.  We turn to media, other people, self help gurus, sports, money.  These are just substitutes for water and they won't satiate us.  Jesus sustains life.