Fullness

What brings a Soul to fullness?

What fulfills a hungry Soul?

Do you wonder whether

the Soul sighs at our

filling of ourselves

with words of approval,

empty words, 

a steady diet of failing fads -

never filling,

just creating more hunger?

Does the Soul wonder,

"Why not words from the Word about your worth,

a steady stream of which, in fact,

can fill to overflowing?"

Do you wonder whether

the Soul sighs at our

filling of ourselves

with images 

prompting us to alter our way, shape or form

and experiment with alterations

unfitting, unsuited or unbecoming

of our Being?

Does the Soul wonder,

"Why conformation to ill-fitting substitutes?

What about confirmation

that your true image

exists in the Creator's Image,

you, fully-Formed in this Image?

Do you wonder whether

the Soul sighs at our

filling of ourselves

and our lives

with stuff,

stuffing ourselves with stuff that can't fill?

Does the Soul wonder,

"Why store up treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal, instead of

storing up for yourselves treasures in heaven?" Matthew 6:19–20 

The Soul, for all of its hunger,

is a patient Soul indeed,

hungering quietly,

stirring,

longing for Fullness,

craving proper nourishment,

waiting for something with lasting power,

something that remains.

Fullness depends on reflection.

The Soul deep within

IS the deep calling to deep

and this deep hunger permeates a Being

and only a deep-feeding can do.

The Soul is hungry within us.

This hunger is wide and long and high and deep.

While we search the pantry of possibilities

and quick-fillers

because we don't have time

for this wide and long and high and deep,

because that would take so much time,

too much time...

the Soul

is left to hunger and hope

for silence, in order to be heard 

and stillness, in order to be felt.

Fullness depends on reflection.

How greatly we need a bread which fills the Soul.

How desperately we need a bread which satisfies.

Give us this bread daily.

Give us This Day our daily bread! Today!

And fullness depends on reflection,

and reflection on the Word

brings fullness of understanding:

"I am the bread of life. (S)he who comes to Me shall never hunger,

and (s)he who believes in Me shall never thirst." John 6:35

If we are satisfied completely only by complete filling,

filling to the full,

full-filling, 

it will be done, can only be done

with fully coming to Christ,

with fully believing in Christ,

fully accepting the fullness of the love of Christ in us

to fill the Soul.

And I pray that you...grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God... Ephesians 3:18

This wide and long and high and deep hunger...

it can be met and fully satisfied.

The Soul knows it, full well.