We spend a lot of our lives looking for something. Sometimes we are very aware of the thing we are searching for. The perfect job, house, partner, or holiday. Sometimes the thing that we seek is there but we can’t quite put a finger on what exactly it is we are looking for. Often these unknown searches that we are on are for the more etherial, hard to pin down, experiences and emotions and spiritual longings we all have. Happiness, contentment, fulfilment, purpose. There are many others that could sit in this list as well.
In my short life I have discovered that this second list of things that we seek can be fleeting. We can capture contentment for a while, but then it shifts as we grow comfortable… or uncomfortable and then we need to seek it out again. Sometimes this is by changing job or moving house but often these things only bring temporary resolutions because they in themselves don’t help us satisfy those deeper longings we have.
My faith is similar. It is there and is a constant but sometimes there are more questions than answers and more doubts than certainties. That’s what faith is about.
I have learnt that faith along with other things like happiness, contentment, purpose etc are all things that require constant searching. Once you grasp it you can hold on for a moment before it moves on again and you have to begin to search it again.
Photo Challenge: Take a picture of something inspired by the word Seeker. Use the hashtag #woryem
Seeker
Seeker of lost things
Seeker of the truth
Seeker
We spend our lives searching
Stop for a moment
What are you seeking today?
We are a community of faith.
Strandlopers on a journey.
What are you seeking in this season of advent
By God’s grace we go.
Amen