what you’re looking for doesn’t come from the outside. It doesn’t lie in having enough friends, as I thought when I didn’t have any; or even in being helpful for a living, as I thought when I was first learning how to be a priest/chaplain. Being connected -- having friends and being helpful -- is a way of life, not a cure for it. Looking for meaning, which is what this is really about, is standing in the river and crying because I’m thirsty.
