Graham says the \u201cborn wanderer is always expecting to come on something very wonderful\u2014beyond the horizon\u2019s rim.\u201d He further explains that this \u201cmakes the desire to wander or explore almost incurable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Germans have a name for it. Sehnsucht<\/em> is their word for \u201clonging.\u201d Commenting on sehnsucht<\/em>, C.S. Lewis says it is the \u201cinconsolable crux of the human condition, an ache that reminds us of that eternal joy and beauty for which we were made.\u201d<\/p>\n Bingo!<\/p>\n Remember a couple of blogs back I quoted Graham saying that nature would teach \u201cwhat is beautiful and who you are and what your special quest is in life\u201d? Maybe that\u2019s why we are always longing for something wonderful just over the horizon.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just that we might see a beautiful landscape or spectacular natural phenomenon (think of Niagara Falls or the aurora borealis). Maybe we are being pulled toward a joy and destiny that nature only reflects, as moonbeams bouncing off a radiant sun. And maybe that destiny is not only temporal but eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graham says the \u201cborn wanderer is always expecting to come on something very wonderful\u2014beyond the horizon\u2019s rim.\u201d He further explains that this \u201cmakes the desire to wander or explore almost incurable.\u201d The Germans have a name for it. Sehnsucht is their word for \u201clonging.\u201d Commenting on sehnsucht, C.S. Lewis says it is the \u201cinconsolable crux […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}