Deep is the Hunger: Meditations for Apostles of Sensitiveness by Howard Thurman

Author:Howard Thurman [Thurman, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Papamoa Press
Published: 2019-07-22T22:00:00+00:00

God, I need Thee.

When love is hard to see

Amid the ugliness and slime,

I need Thy eyes.

God, I need Thee.

When clashes come with those

Who walk the way with me,

I need thy smile.

God, I need Thee.

When the path to take before me lies,

I see it...courage flees—

I need Thy faith.

God, I need Thee.

When the day’s work is done,

Tired, discouraged, wasted,

I need Thy rest.

33.

THE need for understanding grows out of the basic fact of the unity of life. It takes many forms at various stages of human development and experience. Sometimes, it expresses itself in the play of little children, the girl fondling her doll, the boy garnering his miscellaneous collection of pets, the neighborhood gangs, and so on. For what is the meaning of the devious ways by which we seek to identify ourselves with other people, with other things, but a profound urgency for self-revelation? It is the art of self-revelation that we anticipate when we desire finally to be understood. The consciousness of being understood by someone lifts to the level of awareness the basic fact of unity that sustains and guarantees all of life. We see the meaning of this clearly revealed in experiences of loneliness. Loneliness is to be distinguished from solitariness. In solitariness, a person is often most profoundly aware of the underlying unity of life for it carries with it, often, a dimension of sensitiveness to life, and awareness of others well-nigh unique. But the matter of loneliness is a different story. Loneliness means that the individual feels he is in isolation from his fellows, cut off, stranded! The experience usually takes the form of not being understood. When the Book says, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” it is an insistence that, if the individual has the profound consciousness that God understands him, then this is the ultimate sense of unity beside which all the understanding of others, however reassuring, may seem of little consequence. The possible peril is that of self-deception. There cannot be any substitute for simple sincerity and searching honesty.

34.

Mood at High-Noon

Today is mine!

You cannot take it from me.

You can make it cloudy by your frown;

You can fill me with sorrow by your tears;

You can stifle me with torrents of despair.

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