Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 78 verses 15 and 16:
15 He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
There is a line in one of my friend Andy Wilkinson's poems which describes the Llano Estacado as a place "where wind is plentiful and rain must be dug up before a crop can grow."
There is something deeply resonate in the image of rains which we are not looking forward to, but which rather already happened and whose waters are now buried deep in the earth, waiting to be discovered.
What if what is most essential to sustain our lives in this barren land called living will not be found by looking upward to heaven for some act of God that is yet to happen, but rather by looking within -- deeply within -- to the reservoirs God has already buried inside us.
There is enough rain to make it through life's wilderness; but to drink from it we may have to look down and not up, in and not out.
"Rain must be dug up before a crop can grow."
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