Dissatisfaction and Desire

We all have times in our lives when we are dissatisfied with how things are, and seek for something different, something better. Sometimes it is just a stage we are going through. But sometimes it is an invitation to rise higher.

In Bernard Bro's book Happy Those Who Believe, we read Consider Zacchaeus, who struggled against the prison of his conscious; Mary Magdalene and the Samaritan woman, who struggled against the prison of their heart...All sensed a call. They were in a state of dissatisfaction...we would never have dared to imagine these preparatory cries of the Old Testament when God said to Daniel: "I came to you because you were a man of desire." And in Jeremiah: "I will put them in anguish so that they may find me."

I think the key here may be desire. Life can weigh on us, it can flatten us down, it can take away the sparkles we once had in believing all things possible. We become matured, we know we won't get everything we dream about, we accept fate, or circumstances as though it is normal to get that flat tire and drive through life on the rim. But we shouldn't. We should keep the flame of desire alive. How?

It depends on our spiritual life, how active it is, how deep it has penetrated into our consciousness. Such a life will fan that desire to continue believing, continue hoping, continue dreaming through the reality. We will know life isn't about giving up these things; but in letting them mature and become more realistic.

One thing we must never forget: we are called. We have a mission, and in all the chaos, we will  discover it. So never settle for that flat tire. Change it, and continue on. Show the world that all things can conspire to increase  our longing, that our dissatisfaction itself signals there is more to be had, and we can have it. Then will dissatisfaction work in your favor; then will you bring out of chaos something of your dream.