Investments

These days it's all about the investment. Between friends. Between parents. All relationships. You are who is invested in you. We all wake up alone, and everyday we count on those who love us to show up. So here I find myself wondering if I'm worthy of the first text, the first call, the first hug. I don't know. Everyday is different. Everyday is filled with new hopes, new letdowns, and new emotions. We are all merely empty glasses waiting to be refilled. We drink daily from what people give us. So, it does matter, that small hug. That smile. That compliment. That text or call. It all adds drops to our thirsty souls. See the Lord never meant for us to do this alone. We can't. While he can quench our thirst, and he can give us bread to eat so we do not hunger, we will never make it alone. We need community. All of us.

So we will be who invests in us. Whether it be the pot head or the church leader. Whoever makes us feel worthy of the first text or the night out, will be how we value ourselves. If the drug dealer shows interest when your church group doesn't even seem to know you're gone... Human nature causes us to love what loves us. After all, why would we do anything without getting anything in return? Why go to Bible study if no one cares if you go? Why go drinking if you love people who don't? We are who invests in us. If we are loved by people that want us to get an education, we will. If we are loved by pot dealers and jail birds, why wouldn't we follow their laziness?

So be that person. Be the person that loves for good. Be that person that invests in the lonely, the lost, the low. They need you. Even the loved need you. Everyone depends on the attention of others. To be worthy of love. Even though, as we are only human, we will let them down, do what you can. Do what you can now. Because now is what matters. Today, tomorrow, next week. Make them know, you care, they matter. Because without some good light, without some positive investment, we'll all fail. We'll all invest in the lowest of low, in the actions that lead us to a desert instead of the sea. Even those that seem most loved or most solid, still need a drink. Sometimes as much as those that are knee deep in desert sand. We all wake up empty, lost in a wasteland, waiting for a little love.

You will become who invests in you. And they will be who invests in them. We all have the power to show a little of God's love, share a little of his truth, of his drink. So let them know, they're worthy of the water.