What if God Himself is leading us on in the search for that magical spark of something indefinably beautiful? Maybe God puts those little sparks inside us when He forms us, little sparks of home that won’t let us give up…

This is a great description of a spiritual reality. Our search for fulfillment is a gift from God that begins with God. But the conclusion to draw isn’t that God is trying to lead us to something else, but that he is the “something indefinably beautiful”, and he is leading us to himself.

Ecclesiastes says that God put eternity in our hearts, meaning that, while we are temporal, there is something in the deep parts of us that cannot be satisfied by anything that is not eternal. And there is nothing eternal but God.