Our Inner Longing
October 19, 2023
Hi! How is each
and every one? Did I get you wondering
for a while? I hope I did make you
wonder; at the same time I was hoping you would not wait longer than you
should. Know what happened? This
computer that I am using just didn’t want to work. I was not really in panic mode; I kept myself
cool. I thought I still have a notebook
to turn to but guess what it did not want to boot. I started to feel the pangs
of poverty and detachment.
How best to approach the situation? Tuesday was the same day the Holy Father
called for a day of fasting, abstinence, and prayer for world peace. Likewise the Prelate of Opus Dei called to do
the same and accompany the Holy Father and the whole world. After all
everything was for the good. I had
something more to fast from, abstain from and offer prayers for world peace. It
couldn’t have been better, right?
And yesterday
late afternoon, I got the device back. I started looking into what happened and
how it is after the ‘overhaul’? Most of my documents are gone. Good enough I was able to transfer to a USB
three files I have been working on the past few weeks.
Am still grateful the device is working again even if I
have to begin again working on some files that are gone. In my ears go the words of somebody “It is
good to begin and begin again but don’t remain a beginner.”
Now let us go back to business after two days delay. Following
is the continuation of the last post and this time on the inner longing that
you and I always try to satisfy but still not quite it. We continuously ache for that something.
The
Inner Ache (From Broken
Gods, Hope, Healing, and the Seven Longings of the Human Heart, Gregory K.
Popcak, Ph. D. Ch 1).
We all ache for “more.” We want more.
We want to have more. We want to be more.
But many of us believe that we are simply being selfish when we indulge
these fantasies of abundance. Of course,
there are any number of people who, at any moment, would be more than happy to
tell you that thinking you were meant for more is an exercise in narcissistic
self-delusion.
It is true that we often attempt to satisfy this
ache in ways that will never fill us up.
But this doesn’t alter the fact that our universal longings point to
something beyond ourselves. Too often
our response is to shut down our desires or give in to those people in our
lives who try to shout them down.
There is another option. We can learn to listen to what that ache for
more is really saying to us about both our destiny and the means of fulfilling
it. There is nothing wrong with the
desire for more. In fact, God promises
to fulfil that ache: “Find your delight
in the Lord who will give you your heart’s desire” (Ps 37:4). The insatiable ache in our hearts—misguided
though it can be—is incredibly important.
It exists to remind us that we were destined by God to be gods and to motivate us to commit to live a life that makes
God’s stunningly amazing plans for us possible.
Each and every one of our desires—including our earthly desires and even
our sinful desires—exists to point the way back home to God. Unfortunately, many of the things we
do—whether we are trying to fulfil our destiny or simply to quench that more
immediate, burning hunger—end up breaking us.
Our divine homing beacon is in need of repair. Its tone still sounds and echoes in the ground
of our being, but it does not always point us in a true direction. Out of frustration, many people try to ignore
the constant pinging of this beacon hidden at the core of their desires. Others simply go wherever the beacon superficially
points them, never questioning the direction they are heading in until they
become more and more lost.
Despite these challenges, we can still find our way
back to God and back to our destiny in God.
We are meant to be gods, but because of our fallen humanity we are, for
now, broken gods in need of deeper
healing—a healing that God makes possible through his divine gifts and our own
efforts to stop living in fear of our deepest desires, the seven divine longing
of every human heart. When we turn our
longings over to him, he sets us on the path to becoming the gods we were
created to be—whole and healed, peaceful and perfect, faithful, fearless, and fulfilled.
Nothing is truly wasted
when you and I sincerely seek God, find Him and love Him in return in many
little things you and I can do for Him.
Go to His mother who is also our mother, Mama Mary and she will take us
to Jesus and will tell us “Do what He tells you.” Then our hearts will rest in
Him.
See you in the next post,
“May
tomorrow be a perfect day; may you find love and laughter along the way; may
God keep you in his tender care; ‘til He brings us together again.”
Affectionately,
Guadalupinky
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