{"id":2939,"date":"2008-08-28T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/08\/everybodys-got-a-hungry-heart.html"},"modified":"2008-08-28T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T09:24:00","slug":"everybodys-got-a-hungry-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/08\/everybodys-got-a-hungry-heart.html","title":{"rendered":"Everybody’s got a hungry heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Everybody needs a place to rest<\/span>
Everybody wants to have a home<\/span>
Dont make no difference what nobody says<\/span>
Aint nobody like to be alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody’s got a hungry heart…”<\/span><\/div>\n

That was how Bruce Springsteen<\/a> expressed something St. Augustine<\/a> had understood 1600 years earlier: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in thee.”<\/p>\n

Today is the great saint’s feast day (Gus, not Bruce), and to mark the morning, The Anchoress has posted Morning Prayer<\/a>, complete with her beautiful chanting. She sounds much prettier than Springsteen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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