For with you is the fountain of life
Rome (Città Nuova), 25 December 2001 Commentary of the Word of Life: For with you is the fountain of life. (Psalm 36:9) ... This Word of Scripture tells us something so important and vital that it can be an instrument of reconciliation and communion.First of all it tells us that there is only one source of life, God. It is from God, from his creative love, that the universe is born and he makes it the home of humankind.It is God who gives us life with all its gifts. The Psalmist knows the harshness and dryness of the desert and what it means to have a spring of water with all the life that flourishes around it. He could find no better image to sing of creation that springs like a river from the heart of God. And so a hymn of praise and gratitude wells up from the human heart. This is the first step to take, the first teaching to grasp from the words of the Psalm: to praise