dry bones

today, I'm thankful that someone will tell me straight up, but gently, that I need to learn how to care for people.
I'm also thankful that God's presence always brings life. How badly this world needs Life. How badly, as L so aptly says, I need Him to bring back Life into my dry, dry bones.

" 11 Then he said to me: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.' 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.' "
Ezekiel 37