In the desert of insignificance you find
people:
Feeding
others; when they themselves are hungry
Giving
out drinks; while being thirsty
Embracing
others; yet longing to be held
Providing
for other people’s needs and left wanting
Calming
the cries around them and holding back their own tears
Laughing
out loud and mourning silently
Surrounded
by people and lonely
Loving
others and longing for love
Accomplished,
rewarded, with renown and yet empty
What happened? The desert of insignificance
resides in the heart. It’s an internal condition. It’s about the loss of
significance of the Person. Somehow in all our busyness in life, we somehow
become forgotten and abandoned. While not having denied the needs of others;
your own needs are left depleted. You have paid sufficient attention to others,
but inattention has been bestowed upon you.
It has left you in a place of emotional
lack. Though you have been fulfilling your life with the busyness of living and
collecting and gathering; a sense of insignificance was immerging in your own
heart. Busyness, the desire for acceptance, the need to achieve or be accomplished,
and the lusts for importance made all your offerings, trinkets, and stuff
significant, but NOT YOU.
Most people don’t realize it’s not them, but their
stuff that’s significant until the sand is under their feet. The desert of insignificance
is an emotional desert, a wasteland, a place of desertion, and a barren region
in the heart and many go there to either visit or stay. Some visitors meet the Water of Life and return saying:
I had to GO to the desert for a drink of
water
Genuine love makes YOU significant and LOVE is the
water that continually refreshes the heart and the spirit. People can care
about all your toys, your stuff, your trinkets, your beauty, and your offerings,
but not quite make it to caring about you. It may not matter in the beginning,
but eventually it will.
The Desert of Insignificance is a dark place. If you
find yourself there one day, look for the Great Light and let the Water of Life
refresh your significance with everlasting Love “for YOU” and not your stuff.
Pensacola Helene
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