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Adrift

"So your plan consists of setting out to sea and nothing else?" Matt asked skeptically sitting beside o and we need an ally in this fight if we hope to free the slaves"

"You really think that these Whale People exist and that we'll find them?" Matt asked doubtfully

"I think they exist and if we're meant to we'll find them I trust God to provide us e need"

Matt was silent, but I detected he still had doubts

That conversation had been five days ago now We'd run out of water alo

My face felt cracked and dry andI was the only one still conscious in the boat as Itested there was no other way about it Either I was guilty for the murder of all those on board or help would yet coas In a way it had been a relief to e Believe it or not but to drink the gasoline had been a teainst

Thirsty as I was it didn't make any sense, but the body's need for fluid caused desperate thoughts to come to mind that should never have even been rationally considered We were dying of thirst surrounded by a sea of e needed to survive

Even the seawater was te, but I'd seen what that could do to a person Better to die of thirst than die of insanity

I could rationalize why seawater was not an option, but reversely I'd been considering gasoline as a substitute for it I'd already gone insane it seemed or just crazy with the need for water

I closed my eyes as the boat drifted in the flat eine and husked out, "It's all yours God I don't knohat else I can do"

There was so hat I had just said What was it?

"You should've given it to Me fro This task was always too hard for you, but I will make a way because I AM that I AM and I will be praised Trust Me and lean not on your own understanding, fear and seek Me first and it will go ith you"

If I could have cried I would have I'd ain I didn't deserve it rateful beyond expression for ain