Sublime

specifically, we should be attentive to the rhythms and rituals that constitute the background hum of our families and should consider the telos toward which these activities are oriented.

What do you want? That’s the question. It is the first, last, and most fundamental question of Christian discipleship.

You are what you love because you live toward what you want.

a contrast life aimed at communion.

I’m not who I used to be; I’m on the way to being who I’m called to be; but I’m not there yet, Augustine counsels.

For Augustine, psychology is cartography: to understand oneself is a matter of mapping our penchant to look for love in all the wrong places.

What if being human means being a cosmic émigré—vulnerable, exposed, unsettled, desperate, looking for a home I’ve never been to before? The longings of the refugee—to escape hunger, violence, and the quotidian experience of being bereft in order to find security, flourishing, and freedom—are good and just precisely because they are so deeply human

The desire for meaning.

“In your gift we find our rest,” Augustine concludes. “There are you our joy. Our rest is our peace.”