We Are Made for God

Sister Ruth Burrows

We are made for union with the divine, nothing less. We are called to share the life of God. Our restlessness, our insatiable longings, our discontent and experience of helplessness are to be traced to our divine destiny. Commitment in faith to this truth is to destroy existential anxiety.

Faith alone can overcome the world and the threat the world imposes. It does not follow that we lose the feeling of anxiety and fear – we would be the poorer for that – but these now play a role that is creative, not destructive. Fear can cripple, paralyzed, prompt us to shirk and evade life. Faith enables us to live with reality, braving its challenge.

[“Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee”. St. Augustine ]