Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every moment? -Emily Gibbs, in Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Life is. . .about a greater hunger that is beyond words and food…Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. -Ravi Zacharias
Have you noticed how many hungers there are in life? They might also be referred to as yearnings, desires, longings. My guess is you’ve experienced a number of these hungers. The hunger for truth, the hunger for love, the hunger for knowledge, the hunger to belong, the hunger to express, the hunger for justice, the hunger of the imagination, the hunger for significance. The list goes on. The hunger for creativity, the hunger for relationship, the hunger for family, the hunger for acceptance.
Too often we try to bury the hungers of life. Sometimes it’s too overwhelming, sometimes it’s too sad. Sometimes it seems it doesn’t really matter anymore. Yet, if we can stay the course, if we can let the hunger spur us on, the hunger becomes the driver to find truth, to find love, to find knowledge, to find belonging.
As wonderful as that might sound, I believe it’s impossible to fulfill all the hungers all the time. We may fill very satisfied with our friendships, but the hunger for justice doesn’t leave us alone. I wonder, can we learn to live with the hunger?
Instead of desperately trying to feed the hunger, what if we chose to live with the hunger? What if we embraced the hunger and thought of it as the motivator to live more fully? the instigator to try new things? the inspiration to add value to others? the initiator of making our life count? the stimulator of making a difference?
Can we embrace the hunger? Can there be shift at our core of realizing we can’t satisfy all the hungers of life, instead we can choose to embrace the hunger and use that as a driver to make our lives count?
What do you think?
The thoughts for this post came from reading the book Jesus, Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias.
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