{"id":3694,"date":"2025-03-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2025-03-23T18:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T18:51:34","slug":"yearning-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/03\/24\/yearning-for-god\/benedictine-spirituality\/3694\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearning for God."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 20 word in my Lent lexicon is: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

YEARNING. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s inspired by psalm 41, today\u2019s responsorial psalm. Generally, I tend to overlook the responsorial psalm, looking first for insights in the other scripture readings. I often miss out on real wisdom and insight by doing that. So today I\u2019m reflecting on these words:

\u201cLike the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God.\u201d<\/em>

It speaks to that longing that we all feel deep within us most of the time. Sometimes it feels like we\u2019re always looking for something that we never quite find or that we\u2019re always slightly dissatisfied with what we have. It can be unsettling and frustrating at best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can try to fill that gap with money, possessions, career or success. In my experience that works to some extent. For a while we can feel fulfilled and satisfied by those things, but after a while we begin to realise that those are not enough. Underneath the apparent satisfaction we become aware of a niggling feeling we want something more regardless of how well we are meeting the goals we set for ourselves.

That underlying discontent can be uncomfortable. We can be tempted to push it aside, trying to fill the gap with more of the same, but that doesn\u2019t often work. Instead we can sit with the discontent & discover its true source is our desire for God. Once we can acknowledge that it can lead us to seek God\u2019s presence in our lives in new & enriching ways.

Where is your yearning for God leading you this Lent?
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The 20 word in my Lent lexicon is: YEARNING. It\u2019s inspired by psalm 41, today\u2019s responsorial psalm. Generally, I tend to overlook the responsorial psalm, looking first for insights in the other scripture readings. I often miss out on real wisdom and insight by doing that. So today I\u2019m reflecting on these words: \u201cLike the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,461,271,336,537,450,246],"tags":[28,18,6,8,33,229,13,41,770,767,37,29,15,381,260,10,379],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-divine-office","category-lectio-divina","category-lent","category-liturgy","category-psalms","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-lent","tag-lent2025","tag-lentpractices","tag-longing","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-psalms","tag-seekinggod","tag-trust","tag-yearning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}