How full is your pitcher right now?

This is an excerpt from an article that my brother, the Rev. Dr. Dana Knapp wrote for The Presbytery of Scioto Valley newsletter. I found it very appropriate for my life and wanted to share it with you all.

How full is your pitcher right now? Half full? Near empty? When has it been overflowing? What was going on in your life that brought you to that point? Was it at the high point in your life like, the time you became a Christian, or the birth of a child, or the time you found your church home. Perhaps it might have been during a low point, some tragedy, that God became a real presence to you. Psalm 23, which I now understand as a song of evangelism, declares how sharing ones' faith can happen at both extremes in life. The psalmist sings of God's presence when all is well, such as when God provides the soothing waters and green pastures and leads him on the path of righteousness. Yet the psalmist also rejoices in God's presence in the valley of death's shadows and when his enemies surround him. Even then God is so present that the psalmist's cup is overflowing.

Whatever, the occasion God is always present in our lives, we only have to open our hearts and listen.