You Are All

I hunger for many things other than God. Too many. But the song says, “You are all my heart is really longing for”. C.S. Lewis helped me see that these realities are not mutually incompatible. In “The Weight of Glory”, he speaks of the many idols we substitute for our one true longing. “But they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, the news from a country we have never visited.” Reading this, I came to see in a moment that every yearning in me, no matter how misguided, is actually a weak expression of my truest and deepest desire for the one who waits at the end of all our searching.