A Not-So-Secret Garden

 

And the LORD will guide you

       continually

and satisfy your desire

    in scorched places

and make your bones strong,

and you shall be

        like a watered garden,

like a spring of water,

whose waters do not fail.

            Isaiah 58. 11

That kind of life 

       doesn't just happen.

But when we seek the LORD,

  we see life differently,

  even in the hard stuff.

God does not just show us 

    the way through.

  He reveals Himself to us.

When we run with God,

worship Him 

   in word, deed and work,

love selflessly,

uphold His Word 

   as precious and vital,

pray our way through,

life cannot help

      but radically change.

Abiding in His strength,

we do not just survive,

  but thrive in 

  impossible places.

And God impacts

  everyone around us,

even those we

      do not yet know.

He makes us

  a blessing in the midst

  of all the earth.

O LORD,

Help us to know that

even in scorched places,

even in these circumstances,

You are bringing about

  Your great goodness here.

You help us

      to live differently.

Fill our pockets with Your grace.

You draw us to Yourself.

And along the way,

   bring others also to You.