Complete Joy (by Cathe Laurie)
And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete” (1 John 1:4 ESV). Did you know that the Namib desert in Namibia only receives an average rainfall of five millimeters annually? It is one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world. And yet, there are still patches of life throughout it. The secret of the trees that grow there is that they dig deep roots—sometimes dozens of feet—to reach moisture hidden under the sand. Underground water flows from ancient riverbeds or aquifers, and finding this water allows the trees to continue standing tall and leafy, even while the dunes around them bake.