Seeker Sensitive

Seeker of what?  The lover of one’s own fulfillment seeks a god of his own invention, the god of his own interests.  Here, again, is the idolatrous humility of those for whom “Truth is too great.”  But if I could, I would give the idolater such a glory in himself that he would want something even more glorious.  “Do you not see,” we might urge, “how wonderful it is to desire knowledge?  How glorious it is to know the makeup of distant galaxies or the chemical composition of chlorophyll.  Describe chemical bonding, solve a math problem, and your mind moves the universe.”  Then the voice drops to a whisper and we say, “Then consider that you are equally, or even more so, called to know God.”  We smile vaguely, slightly hopeful.  But the seeker, almost offended, replies,”Oh, no!  I would never be so arrogant!  I shall be humbly satisfied with the god that I have invented.”  And so is the seeker no seeker at all.

See the “Gods of Love” poem.

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