The Church Matters

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

Too often when we try to solve a problem, we go immediate to technicality, efficiency This quote reminds us of something deeper. The great work of our life always is below the surface. To build something that will carry us to far shores, we must first be moved to long for it.

Great boats are not built by blueprints alone, but by the hearts that ache for the horizon.

I think about this when I think about us as a people of faith. If we want to build a life with God, or help others find a life with God, it would be a mistake to simply form a committee. What is most needed and most valuable, is to awaken in ourselves the yearning for our deepest and best desire—to long for the transcendent and the imminent, to yearn for the source of all things, which is God himself. Father. Son and Holy Spirit. Who’s love is more vast than the sea itself.

Where is your heart? What is your treasure. What do you long for? Because where your treasure is, that is where you’ll find your heart.

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