One of the challenges in the Christian life is to rightly value the place of hunger equally to the place of being filled. This beatitude in Matthew 5:6 emphasizes the blessedness of the hungry not the blessedness of those who are filled.

We need a revolution in our thinking with regard to the pains we experience in hunger for God. “Make yourself a capacity and I will make myself a torrent” (Saint Angela). God wants to give Himself completely to us! He doesn’t want to give us a ‘trickle’ on the inside (John 4:14), but a torrent. However, we must make ourselves a capacity.