A Healthy Hunger
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Two years ago, a professor told Mary E. Castleman that it was better to be hungry in the center of God's will than full outside of it.
What did he mean? She's "still unpacking the weight of it."
All of us who struggle with the season God has us in--unemployment, singleness, retirement--can relate. In vain attempts to still our dissatisfaction, we run to things which only temporarily satisfy our appetites.
In a vulnerable post on Mended Ministry's blog, Castleman writes about her desire to stop "snacking" on things that filled her time but left her empty, and instead go to God with her hunger for relationship and affirmation.
"...I learned (in fact I am still learning) that we do ourselves a huge injustice by seeking to be constantly entertained," she says. "Maybe what we really need to be is hungry. I mean the healthy kind of hunger, the kind that comes when I am not full of my own sugary distractions, the kind that makes me seek to be filled by the Savior who called himself bread and water. Hungry for the things of God."
