The Glory of the Longing Heart

Once again, our friend John Fischer left a "Catch of the Day" in the FISCHTANK that is worth repeating:

"I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of human beings; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." (Ecclesiastes 3:10-11).

It is part of the supreme wisdom of God that he made us and put us here on earth to “seek him, and perhaps find him, though he is not far from any one of us, for in him we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:27-28 (NIV)

In light of what it takes to find the truth, a longing heart is our most prized possession. And it is important to realize that seeking isn't over once you find. In truth it has only just begun.

The Longing Heart
O the glory of the longing heart
O the aching of the wind
The groping fingers straining in the dark
To know what lies beyond the end.
Eternity is trapped in time
Beauty tarnished by the beast
Hope expires at the finish line
Where the universe is creased.

State the answer; don the uniform
Throw conclusions at the soul
Cash the question; kill the unicorn
Press neatly at the fold.
But still it opens at the budding rose
Still it wonders at the child
Still it knows what it refused to know
Who makes wild horses wild?

O the glory of the longing heart
Casting questions to the wind
Let it carry the soul searching far
Let it bring it back again.
But not so far that it will lose its way
Not so near that it will scorn
Near enough to give itself away
Far enough to know it's torn.

So give the longing heart room to roam
Let the truthful seeker speak
For in the seeking it will find its home
And in the finding it will seek.
O the glory of the longing heart
O the aching of the wind.