Posted by Dena on September 24, 2003, at 7:33:16
But where are you heading for in the course of your life? You are constantly doing, saying, or thinking about something. This happens all the time, at every moment of your day. The fact is that you are looking forward to something, whether close or far away, and you tend to that in the hope it will bring you a crumb of happiness. This longing for happiness is present in every human being. In fact, by heaping up money, seeking glory and pleasures, people are only trying to find happiness. Have you not perhaps sought this happiness until now in any place and thing on this earth? Still, all this has not been able to lighten your heart. You have learned that whenever you choose earthly happiness as your purpose in life, you shall be disappointed, you shall find limits, and that you really want something more, and more lasting...
You long for happiness, but a happiness without limitations: an infinite, eternal happiness. Everything in this world is limited; that is why things are not enough to satisfy our souls. Still, every living creature under the sun longs for happiness. So then, where is our purpose? We see that in nature, every natural tendency reaches its own fulfillment: our eye wishes to see and it sees; our ear wishes to hear and it hears; our body needs nourishment and ir feeds itself. Shall the urge for complete and total happiness, inherent to human nature, be the only need to remain unfulfilled and unsatisfid? No, even this longing can be fulfilled by the infinite and eternal God.
Saint Maximillian Kolbe (d. 1941)
(St. Maximillian was a Polish Franciscan priest who was martyred in Auschwitz)
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