To be human is to be broken and wanting. This keeps us in a perpetual state of needing and seeking. We get hungry, we seek food. We get lonely, we seek connection. We feel empty, we seek fulfillment. We are all addicted to something, and the deficits we experience daily cause us to be seeking our drug: attention, esteem, comfort.

This move from need to fulfillment is what defines us and how it happens is very important. Most of the time, it happens quite compulsively since we seek without knowing we are in need. We have what most of us call “natural drives” for sex, food and peace, for some examples. On the other hand, this seeking can be a very important growing experience. You see, the deficit is there for a reason and it is there to lead us to grace. It is unwise to consistently fill it with counterfeit.

What we may find if we seek earnestly is redemption. Without the deficit, there would be no beauty which is inherent in the move.