Holy Hour: 2013 The
PATIENT SEARCH
We have existed in God’s mind from the beginning.
Total. Complete. Perfect.
God the Father has prepared the manuscript of
Eternal Life in secret
and published it in the human heart.
God teaches Life is a Patient Search that satisfies
the inner yearning of all our desires.
I come into contact
with troubled people each week.
Grady, in Lexington,
Frank in Frankfort, phone calls with Julie, Diana, and Thomas.
Most of these
conversations end: “Good luck- take care- God bless!”
But, with Tom’s
situation drug-taking is beyond
The “good lucks” and “pats on the
back”. He is in deep trouble with his second divorce.
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We live in a time
when many assume that the Light
of Christ does not exist.
Large numbers of people
believe that a higher meaning or any kind
of spiritual truth
has disappeared.
This view maintains
that the only hope left to us is the meaning of the individual life:
career goals,
personal objectives are the only cares in life.
This pre-occupation
with self and careerism keep people from recognizing
the emptiness and
loneliness in their lives.
Those that persist to
seek satisfaction through
self-absorption,
through power, money, deceit, promiscuity will, in the end,
destroy themselves
and their way of life.
This would be Christ’s way of indicating that such a way of life is not
viable.
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There is a fundamental truth that we search for
something and we do not know what it is. Our hearts are restless, lonely, and
empty.
We want to be of value. We want to be worthy. We
long for eternity.
We look for meaning and we seek purpose: this is our
Search for God.
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We are never safe from this longing for “eternity” that
God has placed within
the human heart.
This is the core of
our “ Search for Purpose and Meaning ” that only
Christ has promised to satisfy
We awake and embrace
what God has written in our hearts.
To continue the search as the Saints teach us to do “Go to God”.
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Only the Goodthings
deacon robert.r
lackney, My 4th Day journal 2013,The Patient Search
PS:
Catholics search for Purpose
& Meaning, the Light of Christ,
experienced in the Gift of
Eucharist.
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