I got out of bed this morning because I wanted something.

I wanted to watch the sun rise or kind of rise ish over a cup of Kenyan.

I wanted a little time alone in the quiet with God before the three headed chaos monster

of Jude Moses and Sunday was out of its lair. God bless them.

I wanted to be with you and recenter my mind and body on the reality of Jesus and talk

about the Sabbath one of my all-time favorite practices from the way of Jesus.

And as where does it sound? This is actually my job and Sunday is my Monday.

I wanted to work. I wanted to contribute to human flourishing in my own small way and I wanted

to make a little money to pay for dinner tonight for my children and myself in Tammy.

My point is, my point is I woke up with all sorts of desires and those desires are what got me

out of bed on a stormy, dark, winters morning. Desire is a great motivator.

This is essentially the engine of our life. Its function is to get us out of bed in the morning

and propel us out into the world. But if at any point desire is no longer under our control,

we're not at the steering wheel anymore. And instead it is driving our life at that point

we're in trouble. Because when you take a closer look at the dynamics of desire, you realize

really fast and you don't need a degree in philosophy to figure this out. That desire is one of

those things that is never ever satisfied. As far back as a thousand BC the coheuleth of

Ecclesiastes said quote, the eye is not satisfied with seeing. A more recent poet just said,

I can't get no satisfaction. Same idea. Thomas Aquinas, which is a name that most of us recognize but

have not actually read. 13th century Italian, one of the minds that really gave shape to western

civilization as we know it. It was also a priest, founder of Scholasticism. He was an academic kind

of heady brain and he once asked the question, what would it take to satisfy human desire?

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