Back to the font

This is the last day of Living Water, our Kids in the Kingdom Week for 2005 and we will circle back to where the week began this past Sunday—at the baptismal font. On Sunday, Payton, Kali and Max were baptized. Through the week we have encoutered two Bible stories a day relating to water from the creation to Jesus post-resurrection breakfast on the beach with his discples. The journey brings us back today first, to Jesus' baptism and then to consider our own baptisms. This is the same sort of cycle we go through in life from our own baptism, away into other stories and then a reminder comes along that we have new life in Christ by virtue of our faith and baptism.

In the back of the King of Peace sanctuary the baptismal font stands full of water as a tangible reminder of your own baptism. Yet if our senses are open to the possibility, all water may remind us of our baptism—every soaking rain, every car wash, swimming pool, or even a mud puddle. Any of these things can serve to remind us of the waters in which we died with Christ and through which we were raised to new life. This is why the Methodist Scholar Lawrence Stookey is said to have been heard on occasion shouting a joyous appeal to his students while dashing across the college campus in the rain saying, "Remember your baptism, and be thankful!"