Endless, Empty Searching

We are constantly searching. We are searching for something. We try to find this something in many things - relationships, others' approval, television, magazines, books, music, food, sex, exercise, and other worldly things. We are searching for happiness. In the things I've listed, we are trying to find happiness, and in all the wrong places. We should be searching for this happiness in Christ Jesus, our King, and Savior.

God freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength (CCC1).

The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases calling man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for: "He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator." (CCC27)

We as children of God will only find our true freedom in God. Our relationship with Christ will give us the peace, freedom, and joy we desire. We will only find the happiness we are searching for in Christ!

Let us break off their shackles and cast off their chains. -Psalm 2:3

Let us pray for the grace to let of things of this world and surrender to God. Let out hearts be open to His presence in our lives and be open to an encounter with Him! Amen.

You have created us for yourself, O God, and our hearts are restless until the rest in you. -St. Augustine.