In this broken and diminished condition, we tend toward behaviors and attitudes that feed into our lesser selves: gathering and clinging to accomplishments, material wealth, people, and technologies as ways to defend against having our vulnerabilities exposed. We end up turning our energies of love and adoration toward other parts of creation instead of God. Losing our way, we go seeking after other loves and become disordered in our relationships with everything both outside of ourselves and also within.
