Hungry

"Hunger is the voice of a void.  It is Nature demanding her rights.  It is the restless insistent cry of an instinct, clamoring to be satisfied.  There are four great hungers of life:  body-hunger, mind-hunger, heart-hunger, and soul-hunger.  They are all real; all need recognition; all need feeding." --William George Jordan (The Crown of Individuality)

I love this quote.  I ponder it often.  Even right now as I sit here in my husband's office trying to avoid interruption and console myself with a bowl of chocolate ice cream, I feel this hunger inside of me.  It is not just a longing for chocolate I feel.  It is deeper and doesn't really go away when the bowl of ice cream is gone (although this chocolate might help me for a moment and tastes so good!).  I yearn for something more, deep within my soul.  I do not think I am alone in this yearning. 

How often I hear the words, "Mommy, I am hungry!" I know my children are growing so quickly and I am so grateful to be able to provide for them.  But, we moms see so much more than the physical hunger and it really doesn't end.  It is constant.  Children's minds and spirits yearn and need daily nourishment.  Their souls have to be fed.  Smart moms know that they must feed themselves continually as well, or else who will be there to help the others?

For many years I struggled against and even resented these hungers.  When will we finally be satisfied?  I yearned for a state of permanent satisfaction!  It is only recently that I have begun to understand how the hungry can be called blessed or happy.  This is the purpose of my blog.  I have to share the happiness I have felt in my own journey through hunger, loneliness, and opposition.

I invite any who are hungry for something more to come and partake.  Join us!  We need not be alone in this journey.  In the process of being empty and then filled, we change ever so slightly.  In this process, if we have feasted on the best sources, we become who we were meant to be.  And we can find joy.