I've been thinking recently about how things often don't seem to remain. You eat a meal, you're hungry again in a few hours, (or a few minutes if you're my husband). Hunger inevitably returns. You wake up, go to work, tend the kids, cook the meal, do the dishes, chat with someone you love, lay your head down, only to do it all again tomorrow. The finished checklist settled at the end of each day seems to be fresh and filled up by the time the sun rises again. Life sometimes feels cyclical and that used to frustrate me. I'm starting to see it a little differently.
It's true that no matter how many times we enjoy the company of a loved one, thrill at exploring new countries, laugh at great movies, cry at touching books, or delve deeply into a good cup of coffee, once never seems to be enough. We need more - we need "again." We yearn for the temporary to be...what?
I used to think this yearning was just a signpost of the materialistic nature of society these days, but just lately I've seen it as the opposite. Perhaps all the cycles, the repeition without fulfillment, the enjoyment without utter satisfaction is meant to remind us that we, as people, are in fact transient. Just as these moments or things cannot stay, neither will we. We were made for more. We were made to reach out for the eternal, everlasting, and all these fleeting enjoyments or challenges are in place to remind us day after day, meal after meal, one visit, one cup of coffee at a time that we are made for an Eternal Lover Who is drawing us into His unfading, fully satisfying Self, now and in the life to come.
That's why we need to sing to Him again and again, talk with Him over and over, read about Him, study Him, chat with others about Him, enjoy Him, touch Him, taste and see Him repetitiously because each encounter is a momentay glimpse of a ceaseless God Who declares in sweet whispers through the longings of our souls that there is so much more than meets the eye. There is forever in the temporal because life itself is the undying Spirit of God breathing through you and me as we live, breathe, and repeat. Repeat. Repeat...
3 comments:
Wow Lor... thank you so much for sharing! :) You blessed me today!
Laura...it is so good to read your writings again; to hear Abba's heart and never-ending passion for His beloved,as He pours Himself out through your words. Stopping here is always an encouragement and a blessing, thank you for beginning once again. I love you tons! mom
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