Hunger

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” Mother Teresa

Hunger! Eating! - Food! So much of life revolves around it...fears of not having enough....always aware of the emptiness inside....that dull ache that never goes away......or having too much....yet deseprate for more. Compulsive. Obsessive. Always needing to fill the hole inside...that deep sense of worthlessness...and feelings of insignificance. Hunger!

Hunger....an aching....yearning...desperation...a longing to be filled....to be satisfied.....a desperation to fill something deep within.

Living on the streets....I was always hungry...always desperate....constantly aware of that dull ache gnawing inside....never letting up...never letting go...and even when I got food....and filled my belly....I hated it. I'd throw up. It never brought the satisfaction I craved...a longing that tugged at me....pushed me to live in ways that dared life....that dared God....

Hunger....a need so deep...deeper than the physical need to eat....the soul's hunger to feel needed...appreciated....accepted....the need to belong...a desire so great....it can become a matter of life and death.

Hunger - it's insatiable appetite that goes beyond a physical hunger to eat...a need for something so huge..that sometimes no amount of food can meet its ravanous cravings.

Hunger....I used to be afraid of not having enough...of never being physically satisfied to quiet that throbbing inside. I was always worried that when the food ran out... there wouldn't be anymore...ever....Funny thing though...there always was. Even long after He touched me....and turned my life around....I still feared there wouldn't be enough. I've learned that ravenous hunger inside....was always my desire to be loved....to be cared about....to belong....to have a home....and friends.....and family who cared enough to stay. I have that now....and that hunger....is leaving...For many of us....it's never about food.