A Vast Geographical Basin

The Bible is like a vast geographical basin in which tributary streams feed into the currents of a parent river on its course to the ocean. The riverbanks are interspersed with openings where the tributaries join the larger body of water. These points, scattered all along the way from the sources of the river to its mouth, are places of surging turbulence, fierce and joyful, where the swirling eddies of intermingling currents make it no longer possible to distinguish smaller waters from the mighty flow gathering them into itself. This is how the Bible creates meeting places for human spirit…