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Introduction to Dipsao – I Thirst | Immersive Prayer
In a brief moment within the quiet solitude of prayer, I asked God why the concept St. Paul so eloquently expresses; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20) echoed repeatedly in my mind. The answer was simply “I Thirst”. As sometimes happens in scripture translation to English, the transliterated Greek word “dipsaƍ” means the state of being thirsty. I have come to conclude as Blessed Mother Theresa did, that this striking thought is a prayer of an endless two-way thirst of both giving and receiving love, manifesting as both human and divine. All Jesus asks, is to allow his presence to enter and change us as he offers a sip from his endless well of love, satiating our thirst, by loving as he did. I offer Dipsao - I Thirst as a thought for all those offering themselves unselfishly to others.