Showers of Blessing in the Desert

This is a picture of one of the many arches in Arches National Park in Moab, UT.  Moab is in a desert.  Nothing much grows in the desert.  When we were there in June of 2006, we were told that the average rain fall for the month of June was about ½ inch.  The few days we were in Moab, we experienced a dust storm that roared through the valley, and the very next day an inch of rain fell in less than half an hour.  The streets were flooded.  Sometimes we go through what seems like a desert period in our spiritual lives.  It doesn’t seem like much is happening.  We may feel more dead than alive.  We may wonder where God is.  I think it’s in those times that we have the opportunity to learn what it means to live by faith in God’s care for us and not by our subjective feelings.  In the desert roots must go down deep for the vegetation to survive.  To flourish in the sometimes arid conditions of this life, our roots of faith also must go down deep into the wellsprings of God’s professed love and faithfulness towards us.  It rains, even in the desert.  There shall be showers of blessings.