God is always there, waiting for us to find Him! Search and you will find!

I believe we are all born with a deep desire to be with God! This longing feels like hunger that drives us to endless searching for something to satisfy. Without training about the spiritual life, one goes about seeking to fill our "hunger" with many things: possessions, fun, laughter, relationships, food, alcohol, drugs, sex, entertainment and pleasure of any kind. If we are able to try many of these things, we realize that eventually we are still feeling the emptiness or hunger for "something else" or something "more". That something else is God, the source of everything, and provider of all our needs, who knows best what will make us the most happy and does more for us than we could hope for or imagine.

I have come to believe that God is anxiously waiting for us to discover that He is waiting to be our everything, our first desire and source of our very being, the foundation and ground of our soul, if we allow. It is how we were created and meant to be. When a relationship with God is nurtured and becomes strong, nothing can compare with the contentment and joy, peace and satisfaction arising from intimacy with God. God has so much more for us than we can understand, think can be possible or feel we deserve.

When young I somehow came to believe that God was waiting to punish me, to deny my wishes, limit my world and prohibit much of what I thought would make me happy. I decided that to be happy, I would have to seek what I wanted through much hard work, manipulation, acquisition and control. WRONG! That did not work! When I finally had much of what I thought would make me happy, I felt empty, unhappy and dissatisfied. It led to exhaustion, disease, loss and despair. Thank God, God was waiting for me to discover another way through a relationship with Him.

After many years of searching various spiritual beliefs and practices, I have come back to the basics. Faith helps a lot, something that I lost early in my childhood through much betrayal and abuse by those who had the responsibility to nurture, care and give me unconditional love. But God is faithful even if we are not. God loves us and cares for us unconditionally. If we ask, pray and seek His "face", eventually God leads us to the truth and the joys of experiencing His love and providential caring and guidance. God is there all the time. How much time we give to God to develop and nurture a relationship with Him will make the difference. I have found that Jesus Christ came to show us the way "to the Father", a way we could not ever find on our own. The good news is that the way is always open and it always works, even  though not perfectly or immediately, but that is only limited by us and our limitations and hesitations and doubts. Jesus is knocking for you to let Him in! Can you give Him a little time?