Status Updates From Searching for Enough: The H...

Henri Nouwen while our minds and hearts filled with many things, and we wonder how we can live up to the expectations imposed on us by ourselves and others, we have a deep sense of unfulfillment… we seldom feel truly satisfied, at peace, or at home.

Spiritual breakthrough often starts with saying what you think and feel but are convinced you aren’t “allowed” to say.

Some rage at the gap between promise and felt reality; others pretend; most of us just keep quiet. But all of us search for more

“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or byproduct, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself." Viktor Frankel

Personal failure is a lot less about morals and a lot more about what occupies the center of your heart


Even those of us who apprentice under Jesus and claim to have found our souls ache-the one object that can actually satisfy our desire for eternity-even we, when we’re honest, don’t always feel the “enough” we are so quick to proclaim as our birthright