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For you, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours. You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning. In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered. (Psalm 90:4-6 NLT)

Like a dream that disappears in the light of day, our life is brief.

Our days are even shorter.

In the earliest hours the brand new day stretches out before us with endless possibilities, and, like

Morning Glories, we bloom and flourish in the light of it.

But, often, as the day wears on, our hopes fade into reality and we become dry and withered.

We sometimes see the same pattern in the whole of life.

We start our walk with Christ in a blaze of glory, but as we journey through the realities of our life, our faith withers and our passion fades.

It's because one spectacular encounter with God isn't meant to sustain us for our whole life, or even for a whole day.

We aren't meant to meet Christ once and then go on with our lives.

Just as we aren't meant to meet our Heavenly Father in the morning light to bloom in His presence and then tackle the day in our own strength.

We are meant to hold His hand.

To lean on Him.

To let Him nourish us throughout our days, and our lives, with the living water that flows from His presence and keeps us passionate and alive in our faith.

We are meant to bloom throughout our days and throughout our lives.

May we bloom and flourish today and always.