The Lord had to become and to be the real Leader in my prayer life, and thus in all of my life. As Teresa puts it somewhere, I had to learn to seek the God of consolations and not the consolations of God. It was up to Him whether or not there was water in the pump. Mysteriously, and without my realizing it, he was actually changing my attitudes. I was learning to “hang loose, let go, float free,” precisely by means of the very dryness of the well which seemed so frustrating to me. –‘When the Well Runs Dry’ Father Thomas H. Green, S.J.

Watering the virtues.

Bucket toiling.
A hand pump beginning.
A flowing river from heaven.
Rain pouring eternally.