Thirsty.

AS THE DEER PANTS FOR WATER, SO MY SOUL THIRSTS FOR YOU, O GOD. 
Ps. 42:1 

"THIS IS A THIRSTY HOUR. The world news headlines read as vivid and torrid birth pangs. 

None immune to the thirst of the age. Hearts now sing of longings. These can only be quenched in God. Your sister, your brother, your mother, your father. Your teacher, your boss. Your sports team. Your favorite actor. Your hero. They all need ONE THING. God-shaped hole. Must be filled by Love, Himself. Undeniably. Hunger and thirst becomes an escort into encountering His heart. Knowledge of the Holy One. How high and high wide, this Love. My appeal is now launched from the Secret Place. Keep me hungry. Keep me thirsty. Keep me coming back for more and more, of the Living Water. And not for myself alone, do I pray." 

-Melissa Haskin

"...the Lord, Your God, who brought you out from the Land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint. In the wilderness, He FED YOU manna which your fathers did not know, that He might HUMBLE you, and that He might TEST you, to DO YOU GOOD in the end..." -Deuteronomy 8:14-16

May He send you help from the sanctuary 

And support you from Zion!  Psalm 20:2

Something's Gotta Change lyrics by Josh WIlson
I'm thirsty, God, I'm thirstyFrom drinking what destroys me/I'm pouring poison in my cup/I'm hungry, God, I'm hungry/Consuming what controls me/Somehow it never fills me up/We all want to find something to pass the time/But that could never be enough/Everybody says we're all so different/But everybody knows we're all the same/We're all trying to find a pill/ to numb the pain/Something's got to change/Do you remember when you/Had so much hope within you/It lingers deep inside you still/The more of us we swallow/The more we become hollow/Until we don't know how to feel/ We all want to find something to satisfy/But we could never be enough/When everything we say and take just leads to war and hate/We only pass the blame, sedate the pain, and move along/But something feels so wrong, so deep inside, so hard to hide/So desperately we try and try, and come to find that we are not what we've been loving for/I can't believe I"m hearing people say that all is well/I think it's time we all admit we have no good within ourselves'/Cause we are not okay, we're not alright, and we need to pray for help/Forgive us for our pride, Oh God, Oh God, please save us from ourselves

 ‘For I will pour out water on the thirsty land 

And streams on the dry ground; 

I will pour out My Spirit...’ Isaiah 44:3-4

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” John 4:10

He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 

‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of Living water.’” 

John 7:38

Hallelujah, Amen.