Looking in the Wrong Direction
At times reaching out for God can be something like searching for your own identity: It is futile and self-defeating. In both cases it is better to reach out to other people and serve their needs. In so doing you will find God if you are seeking God, and you will find yourself as well. Those who are forgetful of themselves are inevitably the ones we most admire and love. They are in possession of themselves and we know it. And yet we perversely seek for God where we are least ourselves, in our own self-centeredness.
— from the book Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Murray Bodo, OFM
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