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A Dead Plant and A Soul Saved

"Another one died? How did I kill it... too?" 

I love plants. After living in a single bedroom apartment, probably 600 square foot -with gracious measurement, I love plants even more. It adds life and color, even if minimal. The challenge? I am not so good at keeping them alive. Watering them is my favorite part! Being a morning person, I wake, make the coffee or tea, do the dishes, put everything away, water those plants - every single one in sight, and then grab my cozy mug and sit down to read. I feel productive before I begin my day. 

Did you know most house plants need watered monthly? Most people, and yes, I have started my own surveying, are happy to know that their house plants don't need much care. I am doer, and to my own demise, do too much.
Two weeks ago I woke up to find yet another succulent dead. Shiveled up. Gone. That is my third one dead in the month. 

But watering seems good, right? That is what I always convince myself. No! Caring the way that that particular plant needs watered is what is important. 

My soul is so thirsty for community right now. Why? I am convining myself others can give me the watering I need. Looking for care can appear so notorious, yet it is so damaging (life sucking and even destructive) if sought in the wrong places.

Lord, I am so grateful my succulents died. You let them die so that I would open my eyes and see the death in my own soul as I sought the wrong source for life-giving truth. Thank you. Water -not from You, the true source - is deadly. Lord, help me drink from your flowing well alone. 
                                                                                                                                           
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

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