"You were made for Fire."

A great post by Steve Kellmeyer via Dawn Eden.

We are not made for a five bedroom, four bath palace with an ocean view.

We are not made for a one bedroom, one bath mobile home in a trailer park.

We are made for God – without Him, nothing makes sense, nothing satisfies. He alone is three Persons in perfect communion.

We are persons made in His image. Human persons are made for communion with both persons and Persons.

We cannot commune with flat-screen TVs, fast computers or even nature itself. We may see in each of these, as through a glass, darkly, the image of the persons who created each. It may be that the television, the computer, even the world, somehow dimly reflect or tell the glory of their creators, but these are not enough.

We are made for eternity, not for loss. When we experience the loss of created things, we remember that this was not the original goal anyway. Though the fire burns through the night, at the rising of the sun, we can look beyond the smoldering ashes and say, “See! He has made all things new!”

Leave the flickering TV, the glowing computer screen behind.

Light a candle in the darkness.

Visit Jesus in the Eucharist.

He took flesh for you, you were made for Him.

You were made for Fire.

"In this we rejoice, though now for a little while we may have to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of our faith, more precious than gold which, though perishable, is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ."