Advent Thoughts

I was at Eucharistic Adoration last night and while I was there I was reading something by an author named Ron Rolheimer. I found his ideas concerning Advent so interesting and meaningful that I would like to share them with you.
".....in every cell of our bodies and in the very DNA of our souls we ache for someone or something that we have not yet known, ache in a way that leaves us dissatisfied and restless inside our own skins. Our lives always seem too small for us. Moreover - and this is the key - this is God's doing.
The fire inside us comes from the way God made us, namely to crave the infinite and to be dissatisfied with everything else until that love is consummated. Thus, the fire inside us will never be extinguished simply by attaining the right partner, the right job, the right set of friends, or the right recognition. We will always be on fire.
When St. Augustine says, "you have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you, " he is, of course, pointing out why God made us this way. It is a guarantee that we will never be satisfied with anything less than the infinite and the eternal".
Some interesting thoughts, don't you think?
Mary Beth