Surviving the sunshine …

Yes, it’s true: I’m an addict. I’m addicted to good weather.

That’s probably because I grew up in California and Arizona, spent most of my adult life in the West, then topped it off with a few years in Hawaii.

I thrive in sunshine and warm weather.

One thing I noticed when living in the Arizona desert is, I can survive the heat so long as I drink a lot of water. A lot of water.

In fact, I wondered if I had an abnormal thirst in the heat. When working outside with others, it seemed as if I was having to drink water far more often than others did. It seemed as if the heat sapped the life out of me faster than those around me, and I had need for re-quenching more than others did.

Life can sometimes be as dry as a brittle desert. It can feel like the life is being sapped out of you! But you can thrive by keeping your thirst quenched.

How do you that when it comes to life?

“On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, ‘Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, “Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.” (When he said ‘living water,’ he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory),” John 7:37-39.

Like a cool drink of water on the hottest of summer days, Jesus Christ quenches our every need. Drink up!

Scotty