The Human Condition and Our Father

Joe A. Caceres

#faith #Catholicism #motivation

The human condition is such that we are all subject to the challenges of life.

Life is a temporary, finite thing. The aches and pains attendant to growing older are an inherent part of the process.

Sometimes, in the throes of suffering—physical and emotional—we are motivated to ask, "Where are you, God?"

We issue this question because we are selfish creatures. That, too, is a facet of the human condition.

Too often, we see the world as an extension of ourselves;

Too often, we call to God only when we need Him.

We are as spoiled children who would have His intervention, lest we suffer the smallest defeat, yet so often is it is to ourselves alone that we credit our victories.

Like a child's plaything we render Him, stowing him in a chest until it interests us to be close to Him again; and when we are sated, He is tucked away once more.

Yet God does not requite in angry protest. He merely whispers to us his eternal love, in spite of our egotism.

And through his tolerant praises, we shall inevitably come to know that we have misplaced the very purpose of our being;

For God is the point.

All around us there is noise, as we rush about our daily lives, seemingly without direction, yet His whispers reach us still; for as God's children, we are all attuned to our Creator, and He to us.

We need only listen.

Through sorrows and joys alike, always, we must listen.