Day 19: Thirst

Sometimes when you feel hungry, you're actually just dehydrated...I think faith works the same way.  Feeling unfulfilled can seem like it's stemming from a lot of different things.  We think we're unhappy because of our job, or because of the money/things we don't have, or because of the people around us - but really we're unhappy because we don't carve out enough time for ourselves.  We don't spend the time that we should nurturing our bodies, minds, and spirits.  We eat fast food because it's convenient and we watch tv instead of meditating or going for a walk.  It's easier to be lazy and mindless - so we do it for the instant gratification...It's convenient to schedule God in our lives - so we go to church on Sunday mornings and call it good for the rest of the week.

Part of my motivation for this post is to chastise myself for falling behind in my blogs - I've noticed a significant difference in my overall happiness/fulfillment in life during this Lent season.  Finding time every day to be alone with my thoughts and feelings is incredibly relaxing and therapeutic.  I'm disappointed in myself for slipping back into old habits of being "too busy" to make time for myself everyday. I suppose its appropriate that this struggle has come at the half-way point - it's all downhill from here :-)

John 4
¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”