If I were to be given all that attracts me in this world to do with as I please
- to accomodate my lusts, my hunger, my longings for love, attention, affirmation - would my hunger and longing be sated?
Not in the least.
Rather, the fires of insatiable lust would be stoked to such heights in me
that all in my life that I most deeply value would be destroyed
by these appetites for infinitely more of that which could and would never satisfy.
And so,
Our hearts long for Bread;
Our Father will not give us a snake.