Come to The Well of Refreshing

Lowly traveler, how far you’ve come, how far you’ve yet to go

Thirsty and hot, tired and abandoned, your journey of innumerable steps, as you trek, here below…

You pitch your tent in the middle of the night as you gaze upon a trillion stars and you wonder where you are…

Without family or friend, you hope for an end, but none is in sight…

Crying out, you spread your body upon the desert sand…reaching up for just a hand, but no one can…reach you.

You’re alone…with no home…the desert becomes your place of refuge…and you refuse to hope…

‘Where are you God when I need you most…why am I living this way?’

I hear the night wind, begin to blow…

One tiny star glows…brighter than the rest…a hush covers my soul…

In the stillness I hear a heavenly host begin to sing a song of deliverance…

Come, come to the well of refreshing…

Then a remembrance engulfs my thoughts, as a gentle wind lifts me to the sky…

Am I dead? Am I alive? Where am I? A voice like thunder rocks my being, I can hardly believe what I am seeing…and then I hear…

I AM here Child; I’ve been with you all along…but you refused to hear me speak and as you grew weak, I waited, for I knew that you would seek me once again…

You had a better plan, but not by my design.

Come, come to the well of refreshing

The desert is a quiet place, where I take my lowly ones to face, their fears and shed a million tears that will bring them to my well…

The well is deep, the water is sweet, oh taste and see that I am good…

Life is hard and misunderstood…unless you drink the living waters, I provide… then you’ll run and not become weary; you’ll never have to hide…when you drink from my well of grace…

Forgiveness never runs out…love, peace and joy will flood your soul when you drink the waters that I supply… then child, you’ll live and never die…

Come, come to the well of refreshing…I am the living water…you will find rest for your soul…

Drink and you’ll never thirst again…

Pouring my cup, I take a sip, then drink ‘til I am full…

Come, come to the well of refreshing… 

~Marla Shaw O’Neill August 26, 2019 

Psalm 34:8 New International Version (NIV) Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

John 4:13-14 NIV Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”