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Barren

June 6, 2016 By Juanita Ryan 2 Comments

I am barren.
Meant to be home
to love
that brings forth life,
I am desolate.

I need you.
I need you to come
into this desert I am
with your living waters,
with your life-creating love.

Enter and fill.
May all you are
form and spill
from my mind, my heart,
my lips, my life.

Today.
Bring forth
your life in me,
I pray.

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  1. Cheryl says

    June 6, 2016 at 10:06 am

    It is hard to imagine you feeling barren. You are so rich and full in heart and spirit.
    This helps me today, feeling emptied and drained, sorrowful of the pain and dysfunction around me.
    The “whys?” For the choices that people make to keep themselves in the dregs of life.
    The tears over the pain and lost everywhere.
    The overwhelmedness of need and the lack of response.
    This helps me.
    It is good to be barren! And now I can lay at His feet to be cared for and filled.
    Fill me Lord. Fill us with you.

    Reply
    • Juanita Ryan says

      June 7, 2016 at 7:26 am

      Cheryl, this prayer poured out of me on a day I felt much of what you describe here–emptied, drained,sorrowful. It helped me to admit what I was experiencing to myself and to God without fear or shame. It helped me, as well, to acknowledge my need for God and to wait before God to be, as you say so well, cared for and filled. Thank you for your beautiful response to my vulnerable prayer.

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