Craving: an intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing
Cravings can make us crazy. Irrational. And downright disobedient.
We know we don't need something, and yet we want it. And that want grows and grows until it feels like a need. It no longer appears to our heart and mind as a luxury, but as something we cannot live without. It has grown into a craving. And cravings are trouble.
Trouble because they make us blind to true need---that which is essential for life.
Cravings make us blind to our own need. Cravings make us blind to the need of others. We lose sight of things that are essential---like community, prayer, study, sleep, recreation, healthy eating, healthy stewardship of our gifts---all because we have a yearning, a longing, for something not currently in our possession.
Maybe we crave more stuff, a bigger house, the newest tech-toy, a better car, some new shoes.....
Maybe we crave more recognition, more power, more status, more fame, more position.......
Maybe we crave more silence, less people, less words, less responsibilities, just plain less.....
Now, none of these things in and of themselves are bad. But when we seek them at the cost of our needs---AND when we seek them at the cost of someone else's (anyone else's) needs---then we have lost our Way.
God asks that we consider the other, and our own NEEDS, before (and while) we act. We must not let our cravings be our Master, our compass.
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