THRIST

What truly refreshes is not always liquid. It can be a stream of encouragement, a river of love, a waterfall of inspiration.

The point is we are more than body. We are mind and spirit and both have needs related to thirst.

But they aren't measured by the means we think of in other arenas. It is a need to be quenched by liquid no eyes have seen.

The taste for the mind, if one understands in, is the flavor of light. Which I'm sure won't make a whole lot of sense to some, but it means a knowledge of God.

For there is that sense of spiritual bareness in life. A sense of the wilderness all around that one does not actually control or can we escape.

Too many never actually discover this fact. They seem to wander through life feeling dry and lifeless, but never knowing why.

And to often if they do search for wisdom's well they only look in places that refresh the present with practical wisdom. It never satisfies the deeper thirst.

A mind dehydrated of that kind of elixir may be a fountain of knowledge, but never have clue about heaven. Nor will the person even care.

That doesn't always apply. For some will have both. They find the wells for the mind and also know the source is the Lord.

As for the deserts of the soul. To be honest sometimes the worst ones are inside some temple of presumed oasis.

Oh they are full of wells. Fountains of rituals that one assumes it going to satisfy the arid feeling in the soul.

A place where emptiness consumes. We just feels void of hope or sense of eternity, feeling all dried up in our faith.

I've seen plenty of withered souls in my life. People with prune faces and dead eyes who sat in pews with the attitude I've got my ticket to heaven and that is all that counts.

But the irony is that to truly feel the waters of eternity you have to be a well yourself. To be willing to flow with God's love and mercy.

To help others be refreshed so their deserts inside are watered. Seen so many that never would do that.

They are too busy holding onto the watering can for fear it will end up dry if they use it for somebody else.