What Are We Hungry For?
- Feb 1
- 3 min read
Everyone I've known, including myself, have one thing we are hungry for: Happiness.
No matter how young or old we are, how educated or uneducated we are, what color our skin is, what we do for a living, what grade in school we are in, our goal is the same-to find happiness. Happiness financially; Happiness in love; Happiness in health; Happiness in work and at school; Happiness with ourselves.
We are truth and happiness seeking animals. Our minds seek truth and our feelings seek happiness. We just can't help it. It's natural and it's neverending.
The definitive teacher, Jesus, sits with us and instructs us on how to be happy, and if we listen it would be easy, but us sinners possess what Bishop Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester (Minnesota), calls a "divided heart."
We want wealth, until it doesn't work out.
Then we want power, until that doesn't work out.
Then we want pleasure, and that doesn't work out, so our heart is divided.
Jesus says be clean or pure of heart. In other words, single-hearted.
The Saints have hearts that are about one thing-Seeking God. They see everything else in relation to God.
Love God, then love everything else for the sake of God. Bishop Barren says that's the formula-love God first. Everything else can fall into harmony around your heart that is pure and clean.
Jesus also said blessed are those who hunger. What is our soul hungry and thirsty for? Us sinners are hungry for foods for the soul that don't satisfy. We keep thirsting after all the wrong things, like the woman at the well. If we hunger and thirst for righteousness, or the path of God, we'll be happy doing the Will of God.
(Matthew chapters 5-7 tells in detail how Jesus taught)
If you're still hungry, you may enjoy trying one of my cooking contest original recipes I named:
Candy Crush Peanut Butter & Banana Cupcakes
Prep Time: 30 Min Cook Time: 20 Min Serves: 24
Ingredients
CUPCAKES:
3 medium ripe bananas
1/2 c unsalted butter, room temperature
1 c sugar
1/2 c light brown sugar, packed
4 eggs
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 c all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c buttermilk
FROSTING & TOPPING:
8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
4 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 c creamy peanut butter
1/8 tsp salt
3 c powdered sugar
1-3 Tbsp heavy cream, if needed
1 regular size Butterfinger® candy bar
12 banana chips for garnish, if desired
Directions
STEP 1
Prep Time: 30 Min Cook Time: 20 Min Serves: 24
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To make cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 2 12-cup regular muffin tins
with cupcake liners. Cut bananas lengthwise, place on a small baking sheet and roast
in the oven 5 minutes. Remove bananas to a medium bowl and mash with a potato
masher.
STEP 2
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugar and light brown sugar on
medium high speed until light and creamy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time,
with mixer on medium speed. Add vanilla and mashed bananas and mix to combine.
STEP 3
In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to batter in
mixing bowl, alternating with buttermilk, just until incorporated. Fill cupcake liners 2/3
full and bake 17-18 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean but do not overbake.
Cool in pan 5 minutes then remove to a cooling rack to cool completely.
STEP 4
To make frosting: In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter 2-3
minutes on medium high speed until light and fluffy. Add peanut butter and continue
beating 1 minute. With mixer on low speed, gradually add powdered sugar ¼ cup at a
time. Add cream, 1 teaspoon at a time, if needed, or until frosting is spreadable. Beat
on high 2 minutes until fluffy.
STEP 5
Assemble: With a sharp knife, cut candy bar into coarse chunks. Place frosting in a
16-ounce piping bag with a large star tip and pipe a large swirl on top of each
cupcake. Top with crushed candy. Optional: Place a banana chip on side of frosting for
garnish.
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