Desire for God can safely hide beneath our drives, aspirations, and commitments. Why? Well, because it’s not acceptable to acknowledge needing God in our increasingly secular world. When was the last time you heard someone openly or casually say, “I need God…and I don’t...

A Helpless Cry

Spiritual longing is the helpless cry of the soul in awareness of being in the world in an incomplete way. It’s a precious gift to us from God. To understand spiritual longing in this way I think it helps to first talk about what it means to be a soul. Then, hopefully,...