Hungry Babies Need to Eat!

I have so much on my mind and no time to say a word of it.

Leave it at this (and by this point you ought to know that I can say nothing in short form, even when pressed for time):

A "call to holiness" is not simply an "option" for a way of living. That much it is, but fundamentally it is so much more. It is the only.. yes, let's repeat, ONLY, fulfillment for a human existence.

There is simply nothing else that can ever satisfy a human person.

Many would argue, many would say "maybe if you're religious." The many (or I should say, the majority) are not the law. In this case they are also wrong.

It is actually as simple as a logical deduction, which is delightful seeing as how I don't understand a lick of math and logic supposedly works hand-in-hand with mathematics. Here it is:
1. God is
2. God's being is timeless, limitless, in perfect act, perfect intelligence, perfect gift, perfect love, a trinitarian perfection of unlimited self-emptying and fulfillment between Father, Son and Spirit
3. God, out of sheer goodness and to let his glory be known and his love be shared, for his perfect-in-act-love is always shared-love, creates the universe, and within it, mankind
4. Mankind comes to know God through various pathways of intellect and reason, both through natural law and science and through divine revelation, beginning (credit to von Balthasar) with his recognition of goodness and love coming from his mother as a newborn. Completely helpless and fully dependent, his being is something that is real (meaning, he does exist), but he did not call himself into being nor does he know where he came from. At that stage, he is, and he is told he is good by the goodness of the one who cares for him.
5. As Mankind develops his knowledge and reason, he comes to recognize the universe before him as something concrete and measurable, and begins to learn through quantifiable scientific study
6. (you may sense where this is going, so I'll cut to the chase) Mankind reaches a point where he no longer acknowledges the initial dependence of his very being, his being-in-existence, on any "other." Somehow, man is self-sufficient, and where he comes up short he is more ready to supplant the possible truth that could bring clarity to life with other self-created answers, because he is determined to maintain his autonomy.
7. Modern Man becomes directly dissatisfied with life as he experiences it. There are no more adventures left to be had, no more discoveries to be made. Every continent has been walked on, space is explained, we all know where we came from and how we evolved... and all that is left to do is find ways to be entertained via media and technology until we are freed from this false goodness we did not ask to come into and don't seem to ever really control. (sound familiar?)
8. Some of Mankind has clung to a moment in history (ie, a REAL event, historical and literal) of Divine Revelation that enabled man to know his true cause and thus, his true end. Jesus Christ, God made Man, comes to reveal where man is really from, where the world and the universe get their being and are maintained in existence, and what their ultimate purpose is, Who is their end. These "religious" people adapted a new order to their logic, their reason. For them, first premises and universal truths are the foundation that all other reason is built on. They accept that they are good, because they have been brought into being by the Good. They work towards a transformation of self and the world into more-of-that-Good because it is within the Good that they find all the truths they seek. For them, Scripture is the manual, the handbook for life. To every problem they face there is a way in which God leads us to handle it, and they discover that when they live as God invites them to, the problems are curable.
9. So we reach that argument that says God is the fulfillment of all man only for Christians and those who want to be "religious." That would only hold true if he had created a sect of people to reveal truth to, to reveal himself to, and not for the rest of the world. Yet, even that is not reasonable. Mankind is ontologically the same. We all are this amazing mesh of spirit and body, able to go far beyond the material world and yet completely and utterly within it. We are not dualistic, or animalistic, or angelistic, or any form of dichotomy that makes for a fragmented humanity. We are a dual unity, a unique being. This being the case, if any one of mens soul's were to be ultimately fulfilled in God, it would only be if that soul had also come from God, for the end is directly related to the cause. If this is the case, and the cause is the end and the end the cause, and one man came from God initially and will eventually be at rest in him again, it would only follow that all those sharing rational spiritual being like this man would also have this God for their originator and also this God for their end.
10. Ergo, on the ontological, spiritual, teleological, rational, and you name it level of humanity, God truly is the only fulfillment.

Not sure if that made any sense and I refute myself if at any point I'm a heretic. That goes as a disclaimer for all of this blog. My heart is in the right place but I can be dumb, so let me know I'm "anathema" and I'll correct my errors!

On the far less philosophical/metaphysical/theological level, let me know when you can prove that anything else truly fulfills humanity. I'm certainly open for discussion, I don't like the idea of basing my entire life (staking all that I am and all that I do) on something that isn't true. That's exactly why I'm convicted that you can't prove it otherwise, because I'm striving with everything I have to let this possibility of God fulfilling me wholly and totally be alive in my life. It's not easy and I certainly don't always allow God the power he should and could have, but I know this much: I go before the Eucharist and echoing in my soul are the words "I am satisfied." I don't really like bread, so this is not some basal need being met (although actually it is, but that's what I just said above). My point is that it takes realistic and actual experience to enable the heart and mind to be made whole and to find their reason for being. We live in the world that we might come to know who we are, why we are, where we come from, where we are going, and what it takes to get there. If we that become convicted of God's fulfillment as the only option for life do not live as if we've been convicted, it seems the world has a sorry chance for realizing that the Gospel is real.

So to summarize what I said would be short but honestly interjected with "it never is" - God is all that is going to open your heart to what your true desires are, and to the full potential of all that you can be (sorry Army). Once we know his love, his mercy, his forgiveness and healing, his strength and might, his courage and valor, his beauty and glory, his zeal for our love... we must live as people in love. We must live recklessly and foolishly for Him, so that the world will at least have the chance to see and hear that there is a Love that fulfills all holes, that breaks all bonds, that melts all walls and that leaves us overwhelmed by joy.