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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Joel Knight and I'm a vicar in the Church of England
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In contentment, I still feel the need for some imperishable bliss. So wrote American poet Wallace Stevens
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What satisfies us? A cold drink at the end of a long day
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A good book in an old armchair? Family occasions with the children or grandchildren
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Career or financial success. Good things. Good gifts. And yet, even in contentment, I still feel the need for some imperishable bliss
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The human heart is hungry. What we think will fill us up doesn't
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Or it does, but contentment fades. Or it does, but it still leaves us wanting more
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what's worse than failing to reach what you think will satisfy? Successfully reaching
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but finding nothing there. In his song Erasure, Ed Sheeran sings, I used to think that nothing could be better than touring the world with my songs
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I chased the picture-perfect life. I think they painted it wrong. On one occasion in the Bible, Jesus' friends ask him where anyone is going to find the food to
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satisfy the multitude who'd come to listen to him. Jesus's answer? I can. Jesus claimed we feel the
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need for imperishable bliss because we're made for the giver, not just the gifts. He counters
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us to follow the gifts back to the giver, the sunbeam back to the sun
