I've washed my car, cleaned my umbrella and danced in the back yard calling for rain.  Oh, and I've done serious things like pray about it as well.  Yet, we are now 15 inches down from our normal rain fall in this area.  No one likes a rainy Saturday when you plan on going out to play or work in the yard.  But we have seen no signs of rain for a LONG period of time.  It's beginning to take it's toll on farmers livelihoods, aquadic animals living in ponds, streams and lakes among hundreds and thousands of other issues associated with no rain.

It got me to thinking about our spiritual lives.  We often go into spiritual droughts.  Our hearts become dusty, cracked and hard.  When God does speak or do something amazing it just simply rolls off our backs like water off a duck's back.  Well, maybe not the best analogy, but you get the drift. 

We may not be able to control the amount of rainfall this year.  Or be able to predict when things will get back to normal.  But we can do a few things to avoid spiritual droughts or when in one, we can get out of it by:

*  Read God's Word for nourishment.
*  Pray..that is both sharing your heart to God and taking time to listen.
*  Re-focus on what is really important in life and that is loving God by serving others.
*  Soak our hearts into God things.
*  Kick start your spiritual recovery by doing counseling, go to a Christian Concert, find a read a good book by a great Christian author.
*  Worship.  Maybe even dance as David did in the Old Testament and give praise to God for life, for a sense of purpose and joy!

This is a good start on reclaiming some moist conditions in your spiritual walk.  I'd share more but I'm feeling the urge to head to the back yard and cut a rug!