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momentsbeforemass · 1 year

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The hole

We like to see ourselves as independent.

The masters of our own destiny. Beholden to no one. Boldly forging our own way in the world. With the only thing holding us back being our will to do it.

There’s something in us that is really drawn to that vision of ourselves.

Too bad it’s not true. At least not exactly.

Truth be told, we’re not as independent as we like to pretend.

Because in each of us, deep in our hearts, there’s something missing. There’s a hole. On an intuitive level, we all know this. It’s fundamental to our nature as human beings.

That’s why, consciously or unconsciously, we keep trying to fill that hole with – something. There’s a need we’re trying to meet.

Blaise Pascal called it a craving and a helplessness, And then said the quiet part out loud about how you and I really work,

“We try in vain to fill it with everything around us. Seeking in things that are not there the help we cannot find in those that are.”

This truth about us is what drives every New Year’s resolution, every fitness trend, every self-help fad. Everything that you and I do, telling ourselves that this is it. That once we’ve got this in our lives, we’ll be happier, we’ll be healthier, we’ll be better. We’ll be at peace.

Okay, but why doesn’t any of that stuff work, at least not long-term? Why doesn’t it lead to peace?

Because it can’t. Back to what Pascal said about that hole,

“We try in vain to fill it with everything around us. Seeking in things that are not there the help we cannot find in those that are, though none can help – since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object. In other words, by God himself.”

Translation – a glass of water won’t fill up a horse trough.

In today’s Gospel, we see the resolution of that fundamental need, the only thing that works.

John the Baptist points out the Lamb of God. And John’s disciples follow Jesus.

Andrew tells Simon Peter that he has found the Messiah. And they both follow Jesus.

The rest of the New Testament shows us that their lives don’t become magically easy because they’re following Jesus. In fact, it’s kind of the opposite.

And yet, they will be at peace in the midst of it all. Why?

Because they’re filling the hole with the only thing that truly works.

As St. Augustine puts it, “You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You, Lord.”

Anything else is just a glass of water in a horse trough.

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morganpdf · 2 months

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does anyone else feel kind of slutty refilling soap bottles

#morgan.pdf #saying it now. i stole that image off google. i do not fill soap bottles that messy #dw im normal i make sure it all gets in the hole<3 #banger.pdf #gets the tag now bc fuck it. good post op

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littlegirly · 3 months

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oh no please dont pin my wrists above my head and prevent me from moving while you kiss my neck and whisper all the fucked up things you want to do to me