THURSDAY, July 2

The eunuch did not understand all he was reading,  but he longed for the living water and found it in the most unexpected spot--in a desert.

A young family I know does not go to church,  except to baptize their babies. They are not bad people. These days, they are typical. Demographers note a trend toward lower church attendance by those who were regularly brought to church as children but now see no importance in it with their own families.

One of the children in this family intuitively sees me as someone who knows God. She often tells me of some notion she has of God. She has experienced God in all the places and times of her six-year-old life.

"Sometimes when I am brushing my teeth--while my fingers are still wet with water--I make the sign of the cross on my forehead, because I was baptized," she recently told me, adding that the gesture makes her feel comfortable and safe.

How can the unchurched know about God unless we tell them? And once they know, how powerfully might they witness back to us?

PRAY for the Diocese of Seoul (Korea)

Ps 131, 132, [133] * 134, 135;  1 Samuel 13:5-18; Luke 23:13-25