Hurting hearts
What exactly is sin? To answer that we should first make a simple observation: we are all unhappy. By this I do not mean that we are all psychologically depressed. I mean that we are all, at a fundamental level, unsatisfied. And more to the point, we know it: "People are much sadder than they seem," concluded St. John Vianney.
Our minds are hungry for truth and want it in great waves. But they get it, if it all, only in small doses and tiny drops. Likewise, our hearts hunger for goodness, and they get it, if at all, in dribs and drabs. We seem to know what to do, and what to be, but we seem fundamentally incapable of realizing it.
There just seems to be something "broken" in all of us, something not as it should be. Even worse, we know in our more honest moments that there is nothing we can do about it. Our minds are flawed, and we can't think them back into health; our wills are weak and we can't will them back into strength.
This is our misery, but it is also, in an odd way, our greatness. We are broken, but since we are made in the image and likeness of God, he can fix us. One of the most important spiritual tasks then, especially in our time, is to awaken to the fact of sin--and to acknowledge our need for a savior.
"Those who are healthy do not need a physician," Jesus claimed, "but the sick do." Only when we recognize our deep brokenness and dissatisfaction, neither of which we can heal on our own, can we encounter the One who fully heals.
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We are all broken. Shattered. Scarred. Afraid. Wounded...
Unsatisfied.
We yearn for something this world can not give us. We desire complete happiness and are left with glasses half full.
Unsatisfied.
In many different ways we are all weak.
Maybe not all are battling psychological depression. Maybe it's a spiritual battle you are fighting. Or maybe self hate is destructing your person.
We envy, we despise, we argue, we sob, and we fake our way to perfection.
It makes sense why we are not satisfied.
All of these things leave us with a desire for something more. We continue our journey wondering through sin.
My heart simply longs to wipe away every tear of the depressed and lonely. Those who feel numb to every emotion but sadness. My being cries as I imagine living in nothing but darkness.
I so desperately want to be a small light to those around me.
Those of us, ALL of us, who are blind and deaf to His mercy.
Those who appear to have their lives made are the ones who are hurting the most.
Take these opportunities, every day, every moment, to love and embrace your brothers and sisters around you.
Life is too short to do other wise.
One little gesture can change someone's life.
Go, and be that someone who is to show Christ's love through your actions, words and being.
We are all yearning for Light in this darkness.
Our minds are hungry for truth and want it in great waves. But they get it, if it all, only in small doses and tiny drops. Likewise, our hearts hunger for goodness, and they get it, if at all, in dribs and drabs. We seem to know what to do, and what to be, but we seem fundamentally incapable of realizing it.
There just seems to be something "broken" in all of us, something not as it should be. Even worse, we know in our more honest moments that there is nothing we can do about it. Our minds are flawed, and we can't think them back into health; our wills are weak and we can't will them back into strength.
This is our misery, but it is also, in an odd way, our greatness. We are broken, but since we are made in the image and likeness of God, he can fix us. One of the most important spiritual tasks then, especially in our time, is to awaken to the fact of sin--and to acknowledge our need for a savior.
"Those who are healthy do not need a physician," Jesus claimed, "but the sick do." Only when we recognize our deep brokenness and dissatisfaction, neither of which we can heal on our own, can we encounter the One who fully heals.
We are all broken. Shattered. Scarred. Afraid. Wounded...
Unsatisfied.
We yearn for something this world can not give us. We desire complete happiness and are left with glasses half full.
Unsatisfied.
In many different ways we are all weak.
Maybe not all are battling psychological depression. Maybe it's a spiritual battle you are fighting. Or maybe self hate is destructing your person.
We envy, we despise, we argue, we sob, and we fake our way to perfection.
It makes sense why we are not satisfied.
All of these things leave us with a desire for something more. We continue our journey wondering through sin.
My heart simply longs to wipe away every tear of the depressed and lonely. Those who feel numb to every emotion but sadness. My being cries as I imagine living in nothing but darkness.
I so desperately want to be a small light to those around me.
Those of us, ALL of us, who are blind and deaf to His mercy.
Those who appear to have their lives made are the ones who are hurting the most.
Take these opportunities, every day, every moment, to love and embrace your brothers and sisters around you.
Life is too short to do other wise.
One little gesture can change someone's life.
Go, and be that someone who is to show Christ's love through your actions, words and being.
We are all yearning for Light in this darkness.
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