dry soul / living water

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i'm dry

i'm shriveled and cracked

my heart is drooping

from the weight of life

and this desert heat

is weighing down

on  e v e r y t h i n g

but especially my joy

when the sand billows up

whipping all around

driving in the cracks

of my already girtty

stale and burning heart

it's all too easy

to succumb to the desert  

i'm dry

i'm dry- and thirsty

i just want water

but to find it

i have to know 

just how to get it

i have to want it

enough to get it

i have to search and look

and drive in deep

and only then can

it satisfy and fulfill

when i've taken it up

it's now mine

but yet

if i didn't want it

so desperately 

i wouldn't be seaching

so it's really this way:

the water calls to me

come, drink

you're dry

and i realize it

i want it

so i search for it

and finally, i find it

i didn't know what

i really needed

or even that i was dry

i was just in need

but it called 

and only then

was i fulfilled

i'm satisfied

with living Water

i'm satisfied

and i'll never be thirsty

 since i'll never be dry again

i'm satisfied 

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. // John 4:14

 and He said to me, “it is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. to the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. // Revelation 21:6

when the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. // Isaiah 41:17-18