The Pain within is a Deep Spiritual Sorrow

Our western civilisation is distinctly different from all previous societies. It is success oriented, achievement and possession seeking, work loaded, performance focused, busy, fast moving, wealth creating, luxury consuming, celebrity celebrating, time saving to be time depraved, Prozac popping, bed hopping, and morally weak. But there is a pain deep within modern man. A pain that gnaws away in the background of our lives. The latest model car or TV does not satisfy it; neither does the latest fashion or fad. Eating ourselves or starving ourselves to oblivion does not solve it. Psychoanalysis, pop psychology or the latest success programme does not fill us. The pain within is a deep spiritual sorrow. We have sold our souls for the exotic holiday, a posh address and a golf club membership. There is a hole in our hearts and we are filling it as fast as we can live. The hole is a gap, nothingness, at the base of our existence. The hole is indifference to life and joylessness in the search for God. The modern man is so busy, he is nearly anti rest. He fills his life with things and possessions until it is topped out. He is drowning in possessions. But the hole still remains. The hole still remains because the hole is infinite. Our inner space is more infinite than outer space. Only the infinite can fill the infinite and that is God. We are passionless about God. Modern man just doesn’t care. Through our indifference we have denied our most basic need; our quest for meaning.  We are the most depressed and anxious society that ever existed. We are the first bored society to exist.  Man is indifferent because he does not care about the primary questions of living; who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? Modern man’s thinking is fast not slow. He avoids slow thinking; because slow thinking is deep thinking. Modern man’s thinking is passionless therefore his life is passionless. His thinking is fast, thin and flimsy. Man has ignored God which would be fine if God could be ignored. He can’t be ignored. He holds existence in his hands. Even if man drops the ball, God won’t. He is always there. Life is a question mark. Modern man thinks it is a full stop. But there is death. Death raises the most important question of all. What is the meaning of my life beyond death?