“Homesickness—this perpetual experience of missing something—usually gets misdiagnosed and so wrongly treated. All our lives we take hold of the wrong thing, go to the wrong place, eat the wrong food. We drink too much, sleep too much, work too long, take too many vacations or too few—all in the faint hope that this will finally satisfy us and so silence the hunger within. …Here is the surprise: God made us this way. He made us to yearn—to always be hungry for something we can’t get, to always be missing something we can’t find, to always be disappointed with what we receive, to always have an insatiable emptiness that no thing can fill, and an untamable restlessness that no discovery can still. Yearning itself is healthy—a kind of compass inside us, pointing to True North. It’s not the wanting that corrupts us. What corrupts us is the wanting that’s misplaced, set on the wrong thing. If we don’t understand that—if we don’t understand that God has set eternity in our hearts to make us heavenly minded, we skew or subvert the yearning and scatter it in a thousand wrong directions. But the cure for our yearning and our restlessness is not to keep getting more…the cure is to yearn for the right thing, the Unseen Things.” -Mark Buchanan, Things Unseen
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:00:34 +0000
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