“Do you love me? Do you really love me?” That’s the question of a spouse or significant other who has been hurt by his or her partner. There’s a doubt in those questions. There’s a doubt because the individual’s actions led to a questioning of the love and commitment from the other person. If they wanted to show love, why did he or she do that?

Thirst is one of those universally understood needs. Now, at certain times and in certain places, the need may be more or less pronounced. In some places, people are struggling to find any clean water at all, while perhaps it’s more common around us to make sure we’re drinking enough of the readily available water to maintain our health. But regardless, water is a basic need shared by all people—by all life that God has made. So if we describe a different need as a thirst, it is intentionally or unintentionally communicating something about the strength or severity of that need.

You know that feeling when you walk into a room because you were going to do something, get something, put something away—it doesn’t really matter why, but you walked into there with a purpose but then as you enter you stand there unclear why you’re there. Maybe I’m revealing too much about myself to say that this happens multiple times a week to me, but it’s a wild feeling knowing there’s something you don’t know, being clear that there’s something you can’t remember. You didn’t walk into that room for no reason.