Something to think about

I am full of earth
You are heaven’s worth
I am stained with dirt, prone to depravity
You are everything that is bright and clean
The antonym of me
You are divinity
But a certain sign of grace is this
From a broken earth flowers come up
Pushing through the dirt

God is everything that I am not. I don't quite understand how he could love someone as screwed up as me. I mean, I'm just Allison. Of sinners, I am the worst. I've done some pretty rotten things in my life. But God loves me just as I am. And He wants a relationship with me. I desperately yearn to love Him like He loves me.

Psalm 42

¹ As the deer longs for streams of water,

so I long for you, O God.
² I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I go and stand before him?

Out of this scripture sprang the inspiration for my blog title. "As the deer longs..." Yes, just as the deer LONGS after streams of water, so I LONG for God, the Living Water. I have a deep, desperate NEED for God just as the deer NEEDS water. I THIRST for God - the LIVING God - and I cannot live without Him. I cannot live without His love, and I cannot love without Him in my life.