Renew Me

Sometimes life feels like a vast desert land, and we become so very thirsty for something living, something life giving, something renewing.

When the rains come, dripping with moments of refreshing in our lives, the taste is so much sweeter when we're so thirsty for it.

Throughout my life I hit many desert lands, desert lands that seemed so bone dry I couldn't think, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't see past the empty dust. I couldn't see my hope.

Like so many, I felt trapped in these places, unable to move, with lack of vision and doubt covering my eyes with illusions as I reached to grasp after mirages of lies - empty substitutes for peace and joy. Happiness was my empty motivation.

Here is the truth behind life mirages, those things that come into our path, promising unspeakable fulfillment and happiness without a trace of the touch of God in them. They will always leave you just as you were. They will trick you into drinking the false promise of water substitute, leaving you afterwards with a mouth full of sand.

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