Depending on your age, this could possibly be a pop group, but for me it means a place of peace, relaxation, and nourishment. You can have an oasis with family, or on a night out, to help refresh the batteries. It might be with a hobby. Our pastimes get us away from the usual routines and helps us by setting our minds to something we enjoy. Dare I say, some even find it in sport. No, I don't mean the armchair footballers, I mean those who participate, and find a peace in the 'loneliness of the long distance runner'.
These are good for our natural bodies and minds, but what about our Spiritual bodies and minds? Our Souls? We drop into Church on a Sunday, sometimes twice, and that's it for the week, until next Sunday. Do we have an oasis in the week which helps give our Faith some peace, relaxation, and nourishment? That can be different things to different people. Meeting up with like minded Christian friends, where we know the conversation will be wholesome. Relaxing with a good Christian book, having turned the TV off first. The prayer meeting. Our own 'Quiet Time' of prayer and meditation, or perhaps providing that oasis to someone else who needs it more than you!
I suppose it doesn't really matter what our oasis is. It is just important that we do have something to keep us going to the next Sunday Service. Some might be happy going from week to week without anything to sustain Faith, and our Christian walk, but I happen to think it is important to have a time where we can meet at an oasis, or even be there by ourselves, but with God. What, and where is yours?
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