Desert Soul

For a while this song has been burrowing a place into my soul, speaking to me in ways very few other things have. Here are the lyrics:

I love You Lord
But I want to love You more
I need You God 
But I want to need You more

I'm lost without
Your creative spark in me
I'm dead inside
Unless Your resurrection sings

I'm desperate for a desperate heart
I'm reaching out, I'm reaching

All that I am is dry bones
Without You Lord, a desert soul
I am broken but running
Towards You God, You make me whole

You are exactly what we need
Only You can satisfy

It explains exactly how I feel right now.  Being at college stuck with all of these stressful assignments to do day in and day out with, what it seems like, no break at all.  No breathing room.  Assignment after assignment after assignment, it gets pretty monotonous.  

As a result of this stress-filled schedule, I feel like I'm too exhausted at the end of the day to pick up my Bible and read it.  Even the one I got for my birthday last year that has the days separated out for me with specific passages of the Bible broken up so I can read the whole thing in a year.  It's almost no work at all to pick it up, find today's date, and spend fifteen minutes reading its contents.  I don't know why I keep straying like this.  

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"All that I am is dry bones without You Lord, a desert soul."

Wow. That imagery.  It's perfect.  When get off track from praying and talking to God like He's my best friend and off track from reading my Bible, this is exactly the feeling I get.  Empty, dry, and deserted.  As though there is no purpose to life other than living day by day getting nothing accomplished, apathetic towards everything.  Then I start to pray.  Crack open my Bible.  Read.  A change from the inside is felt almost immediately.  I feel...whole. Completed.  

"Only You can satisfy."