Today I came across one of my grandfather's old books. The Love That Waits for You, by (then) Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, 1949. I loved this part, excerpted from pages 9-11, and it makes a good Lenten meditation....
When God made you, He put two trap-doors into your soul, and through them the Love that waits for you breaks in on you, though you may not always recognize Him.
The first of these trap-doors is your love of goodness.
In chasing after the isolated tidbits of what is good, your soul is really in pursuit of Goodness, and Goodness is God. Your every quest for excitement, your every love of a good friend, your every comparison of good and better, implies some Goodness beyond all good things, and therefore is a want of God.
To say that you want good things but not Goodness which is God-ness, is just like saying you like the sunbeams but you hate the sun....
The second trap-door by which God enters your soul is your ennui, your satiety, your fed-upness, your loneliness, your melancholy, your sadness.
Every libido, every passion, every craving of the body is finite, concrete, carnal, and therefore bores you, but there is still one choice that has never been made, one great chord that has not yet been struck, and that is the infinite.
Your ennui means there is still something to be had; you possess, but not all; you know, but not everything; you love, but not always....
There is not a single soul among you at which God has not knocked thousands of times....
Your discontent, confusion, fear and unhappiness is His way of telling you that you are restless without Him for Whom you were made....
