Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore and Me

So....have you heard?  Apparently Ashton Kutcher cheated on Demi Moore!!!  Demi Moore?!  Who in their right mind would cheat on Demi Moore?  One would think there is no hope for us all if Demi Moore couldn't keep her man happy right?? Wrong!  This news supports mine and Terry's theory that affairs are never about the sex or the looks.  Oh sure that aids the process, but really it reveals an affliction of the heart.  A longing to be filled that is rarely ever just physical.  I have experienced despair of the soul.  A longing for things to be made right.  For peace.  For love.  For justification.  Every time a situation occurs that hurts or wounds me or someone I love, I question "Lord, how do I handle this? How do You want me to respond?" Oh sure I experience anger, frustration, sorrow, the want of revenge.  But the Lord has taught me in the midst of these emotions to seek His voice otherwise I make a bigger mess.  Just now I was alone doing laundry.  Ahh, alone.  Rare moments of a home schooling moms life.  Anyway, I was thinking.  Have you ever noticed the way us women can think of two things at one time?  This was one of those moments.  I was mulling over a situation my family is dealing with and questioning God with the whys.  At the same time I had praise music going and I was grateful that I had spent time in His word this morning and how it comforted me.  Then I had one of those times when God shouts over my thoughts and the noise.  He said "See, Carrie.  All of these trials, all of these tear filled days of the past and present have created in you a longing for Me and My Word." Yes. Yes it has.  We all have longings.  We can let them be filled by Him and through Him or we can turn to the world for fulfillment.  The problem with the world, as we all know, doesn't fill.  It doesn't last.  It creates a bigger longing.  More darker and deeper than before.  Remember Jesus at the well with the woman.  I am the woman at the well.  You are the woman at the well.  You may not be an adulteress, or Ashton Kutcher, but you have longings, troubles, unmet desires.  He offers the water, the truth, His Spirit.  What will we choose?
    Dear Father help us not to miss the grand point of this life.  To know you, glorify you and enjoy You forever.  My heart aches God.  My sisters may ache.  May we bring our empty jars to You and no one else.  We may never know the whys of this problem or that but we know the Who.  Amen.
Pressing On,
Carrie