“You have made us for Yourself, Oh Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” – Augustine of Hippo

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

20 December

One reason we can’t seem to think our way through to a solution to a given problem is that we’re always surrounded by noise, agitation – our spirits are plagued by what the Eastern mystics call “monkey chatter.” If it’s not a TV or a radio blaring, it’s a tapping toe that just won’t quit, or a nose buried in a cell phone - drumming fingers will inevitably drown out what the poet called “the still, small voice of God.”