We want rock, you give us water

We want unbreakable, unshakeable rock;
You give us shimmering, glimmering water.
We want unmoving, hard-edged truth;
You give us ungraspable, moving fluid.
We want monuments which time cannot erode;
You give us dynamic, ephemeral streams.
We want solid, systematic structures;
You give us dancing brooks which gurgle and bubble.
We want right and wrong, black and white;
You give us journeys and relationships, meandering and flowing.
We want to cut stones and construct;
You want us to dive in and go.
The rock we want cannot feed us or sustain us.
It is the dust from which we ourselves are made.
But you give us living water which revives, restores
And when we enter its flow, carries us home.