Flourish.

I love Oregon in the spring. It is absolutely perfect. The fields are impressively green, the trees are budding, the sun is shining(most of the time), spring is in the air, you can smell it. It's not very often that I'm thankful for driving several hours to school each week, but right about now, I am. I can drive through vast farm land with hills in the distance and everything coming to life. On one of these drives I randomly had a thought as I was looking at my surroundings- while I myself not feeling so full of life--If you want to flourish you need to be watered. I knew it was true. I knew it was true for the countryside around me. It may not have been possible if I wasn't living in Oregon where we get plenty of rain to make just about everything feel ready to grow. More importantly though, I knew it was true for me. I realized that I needed to be watered. I realized that if I want my life to flourish, if I want to grow, if I want my life to be beautiful, I need to be watered. If I want to bear fruit, if I want to prosper, I need water. I need to drink deep, so that from me can flow abundant and living water. I need to go to the source. The Living Water. I want to be thirsty for that. I want to be full of life, vigorous, healthy, I want to be able to build up others around me and push each other on toward growth. I want to flourish. I also don't want to be one of those fake plants, either. You can pretend to be watered, it just doesn't work out very well. 

I am dry, but He can fill me up. - hannaH