Hungering for Restoration

This puts so many things into perspective. . .

Our desire of order is a remnant of the Garden and a reflection of our hunger to return. The hunger for heaven is entangled in our yearning for order, relief, rest, excitement, pleasure, and passion. Unfortunately, the hunger for heaven is ignored in the daily enterprise of cleaning our desk, taking a break, or watching a good movie. What can be done to increase our perspective? The answer, in part, is to enter deeply into our hunger for more and the disappointment of incompleteness.

Hunger and disappointment serve as internal witnesses against all efforts to make any part or our existence into a real piece of heaven. Our tendency is to satisfy our desire for beauty and restoration in some activity as mundane as keeping the car clean, the Day-Timer organized, and the grass green. Nothing is wrong with these activities, as long as each continually frustrates us with a failure that edges us beyond the mundane to something so mysterious and wonderful that all frustration, failure, and struggle is light, momentary affliction in comparison.

Bold Love by Dr.s Dan Allender & Tremper Longman III, Chapter 7 - Hungering for Restoration: A Passionate Hope for Beauty, p. 169