WANTING

There are times when the desires of the heart pull us toward places our rational minds fear to tread.  A longing rises unexpected, persistent, born of a need we don’t fully understand but feel is right.

We caution the young: follow wisdom, lean on reason, heed experience.  And yet we know even as we warn, there is both folly and glory in the heart’s relentless pursuit.

The heart feels what is right and wrong.  And the mind reasons towards or away from what the heart knows.  A gift from God, a guiding thread that teaches and calls his children home.

The heart is wild, but it is also holy.  It remembers what logic forgets.  It reaches not just for answers, but for connection and meaning.  And perhaps that is where belief begins, not in certainty, but in a longing strong enough to make us brave.

And still, we learn to be cautious.  We’ve been shaped by a world that rewards control and reveres reason. A world that treats vulnerability as danger and teaches us to guard our hearts for safety’s sake.  Our self-reliance and guarded hearts become our armor that we polish with pride. 

The wanting.  Sometimes buried beneath the armor but never lost.  The wanting for something beyond ourselves.  But for those who dare to reach, the depth of that desire pierces the fabric of self and creates the spark.  A divine ember igniting the memory of our connection with God.  Love’s language is interpreted by the heart.  His essence connects to ours through the rhythm of divine love.  A rhythm our souls were born knowing.  His breath, the one that once gave us life, still hovers near, warm against our cheek. And our hearts, no matter how weathered, always long to be cradled again in Love’s embrace.

And faith, even small as a mustard seed, is the moment the heart dares to respond.  It is not the absence of doubt, but the courage to let desire become trust.  It is how we move mountains, not because we understand, but because we believe the One who does.  For faith is the bridge between the longing and the Love that answers it.

And we were made to walk that bridge with all our hearts, as Jesus said:

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” —Matthew 22:37