On one of our steamier days this past week, I belatedly gave a little tomato plant some water. Within minutes it had perked right up, the wilted leaves regaining their form and the outer stems lifting from their dejected state. What a marvel!

The next day brought a slow, steady, gentle rain. When I next saw the tomato, she was transformed! Every leaf stretched outward, every stem straightened upward. The amazing recovery I’d seen earlier was but a tiny fragment of this plant’s true potential.

Dear ones, we all know how wonderful it feels to have a sip of water when we’re parched, whether literal or metaphorical. An hour’s rest, a delicious meal, a hug from a loved one, a chance to meet a frog dangling on a pond’s surface… all of these can restore us, just like that first drop during a heat wave.

What if we dared to drink our fill?