Cody


 * The Creek of Life Flows Through The Forest Like Veins In Living Bodies.**[[image:Creek.JPG width="731" height="538" caption="The Creek of Life"]]

The water of this creek flows through the forest like blood in the veins of a human being. It carries nutrients and sediments throughout its banks to fertilize the surrounding plants and living things. While the circulatory system of the body brings nutrients and oxygen to every muscle and organ. The creek provides a small drink to the animals that camp around it. The blood brings the cells into wounds to heal the old, weak, and weary body. As the body heals it gains strength, and as the animal drinks and hydrates it has more energy than it has ever had. Such a vast water source is never doubted and is always depended on, just like humans depend on their heart to continue beating to keep their creek in motion.

The creek suddenly slows to a halt...a drought swoops down through the forest...months without a drop of rain and the creek becomes dry. Life no longer exists in the branches, if branches still exist in the dying trees...The banks become dry and infertile and no new plants sprout from the surface. The human body becomes weak and ill as the immune system weakens in the sear bones. Animals begin to move away if they've survived through the dry season and the forest becomes an arid wasteland. This former giving forest lies nothing...Not a dry leaf, not a single bird or squirrell or deer; there isnt a single hint of dampness and everything that was once a paradise is now an anhydrous borderland of death. The old human body lies almost lifeless on its death-bed, and breathes slowly. The only thing to hear now is the dust blowing in the dry wind..The memories of the batening forest race through the mind of the near-death being qhile the spirit slowly lifts from the body to ascend into the heavens in happiness. The empty body stays behind to be left on Earth with nothing capeable of bringing life ever again. No birds chirping, no more dogwood flowers falling through the wind, no more rabbits scurrying through the brush...Just an empty field of nothingness. In every human being, lies a creek of life. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the drought will eventually arrive. But people shouldnt fear this drought...Because there is always water in heaven.

" The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." -**Psalm 19:1**