A Blessing for Your Spiritual Appetite

I bless your spiritual appetite

To be whet by

The goodness of God.

It need not take a crisis

Or a problem

Or a heartache

To make you hungry for God.

The way God best whets

Our spiritual appetite

Is by granting us a sample

Of His goodness.

Peter says we

“Long for the pure spiritual milk…

If indeed [we] have tasted

That the Lord is good” (1 Peter 2:2-3).

Babies don’t wake up crying in the night

Longing for a supersized sugary soda—

They wake up craving milk

Because milk is what tastes good!

I’m blessing your spirit today

To smell and taste and love

The goodness of God—

When you sample His grace,

Nothing else will satisfy.