Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
Without necessarily realizing it, every person is seeking God on a daily basis. If we stop to honestly consider the level of our heart’s satisfaction, we will find that we are not quite fulfilled. Each of us would admit that there is something else that we long for, though maybe we are not sure what it is. The void in our hearts tells us that we are meant for more.
In the early 2000s an infestation of bark beetles decimated the pine forest behind my childhood home in central Florida. My father fought the insects for months, but to no avail. Over a year-long period, whole acres of trees were lost, some of which had stood on that ground for centuries.