Instructions for hunger

For one, we must learn to weep. This is not something that comes naturally for many of us. We have to let ourselves notice, admit, and experience sadness. And we resist this in all kinds of ways, as individuals, as a culture, and as a church.

When you have moments on your own or spaces in your time, just focus on the well at the root of your soul. Imagine that nourishing stream of belonging, ease, peace and delight. Feel, with your visual imagination, the refreshing waters of that well gradually flowing up through the arid earth of the neglected side of your heart. It is helpful to imag