Memory Residue : Hunger - a holy curiosity: the red pill, part two

Maybe spiritual hunger is undying spiritual curiosity. To look at an unconditional love initiated by a sovereign Creator, is enough for some to spend their whole lives searching for the answer. And while some may claim that they've found the answer - solved the puzzle - cracked the code, I find that the more answers I receive, the more profound questions I have. Not in a doubting way (not that doubting is frowned upon), but God is pretty patient with our doubts. Like the ending statement in Brennan Manning's parable of trust and acceptance The Boy Who Cried Abba, we find out that "to those who understand, no words are necessary. To those who do not understand, no words are possible. When you become like a little child, when you open your heart to El Shaddai without reservation, not only will you find the answer, but you will discover an entirely new set of questions" (pg. 83).

I mean, the love of God, not the fake, fleeting, plastic love of this world, is pretty thought provoking and so other-worldly that we can so easily lose ourselves in it, if we allow it to happen. While we are A.D.D. in our motivations, love, and feelings, His love endures for us, to us, and in us, until it initiates a response. As C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity,

Though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him (pg. 118, para. 10).

Maybe it's safe to say that the 'cloud of witnesses' (Hebrews 12) are a curious lot. Marked by their holy obsession of the Holy One, who seems utterly fascinated in letting us know that He's interested in us.

As "Job the tortured friend" wrote:
"What is man, that you make so much of him,
and that you set your heart on him,
visit him every morning
and test him every moment?" (Job 7:17-18)

Or the "shepherd boy turned king" who sang:
"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?" (Psalm 8:3-4)

And, finally, this hunger/curiosity is a value for those who live in the Kingdom of Heaven, according to the King of the kingdom:
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" (Matthew 5:6).

So I guess my invitation to my invisible, faceless, sojourning friends that read my blog is the same that C.S. Lewis wrote in one of his letters: