The Need For God

Admitting our weakness is difficult, when being in charge of our lives, being self-motivated, "having it all together" are the proposed norms and goals of a mature adult.  Where does weakness fit in to this?
Despite our best efforts, we seem to come up with a shortfall or often find ourselves in a "desert".  A desert of fatigue, when ugly behaviors surface; a desert of overwork and over-extension, which blur our vision or cause us to be more forgetful than normal; a desert of dislike or rash judgment of others, which makes us isolate ourselves from them.  The desert could be as wide and expansive as the universe, it we look at it through the telescope of honest eyes.
Rather than be discouraged by what we find, we might look upon our desert as a call to throw ourselves into the merciful arms of God, facing, admitting our need for him, as did the youngest son in today's parable of The Prodigal Son.  He had reached the limit of his self-sufficiency, finding that it only left him eating the pods which were the fodder of the pigs he was tending.  Hie decline and fall from the independence he thought would bring him happiness led him to the arms of his loving, forgiving father, who embraced him with the love and forgiveness that alone would give him true peace and happiness.  May we not fear or shy away from our weakness, but see it as an invitation to let God counterbalance it with his love and mercy.  "Only in God will my soul be a rest, from him alone comes my salvation." (cf. Ps 62:5)
Bro. Rene