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<\/a><\/div>\nEvery heart searches for meaning. \u00a0Every soul longs for happiness. \u00a0We are born restless. \u00a0We are born with a void inside, a missing piece, which moves us to seek fulfillment. \u00a0 We are like a beautiful and complex jigsaw puzzle with one missing piece. \u00a0Without that last piece we remain incomplete, so we tirelessly search for the piece that will complete the picture.<\/p>\n
We often attempt to place other appealing pieces which satisfy temporarily but do not complete the puzzle correctly. \u00a0These fleeting and ultimately unsatisfying fillers may include materialism and vanity, drugs and alcohol, hedonism and egotism to name a few. \u00a0Though alluring and perhaps temporarily successful in satisfying the inner restlessness, these vices rapidly deepen the void within us.<\/p>\n
No matter how many different pieces we use to fill that last opening, there is only one, perfectly made piece that will fit flawlessly. \u00a0Saint Augustine accurately identified it when he wrote, \u201cYou have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.\u201d
\nWe are created by God with a natural need for Him to reach personal fulfillment. \u00a0We will remain restless, missing that last perfectly fashioned puzzle piece, as long as we resist God. \u00a0He has created us and we need Him.<\/p>\n
Some become so restless they run away from God, yet it is in God that fulfillment is found. \u00a0Jesus urges us to turn to Him in our restlessness with His words, \u201ccome to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
In God we find the fulfillment of every desire of our hearts. \u00a0It is in surrendering to Him that peace is found. \u00a0It is in surrendering to Him that He will place that perfectly fashioned piece into our hearts, completing who we are. \u00a0It is in Him that the restlessness of seeking dissolves into the happiness and fulfillment of having found Him.<\/p>\n
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