common hunger

At the deepest level, the brokenness we have in common is a common brokenness.
What we don’t have in common, are the levels of brokenness that obscure our knowledge of the cause.
For if hunger were defined as deprivation of nutrition rather than the physical sensation of the desire for food, we would realize that the deprivation of food lands us all in the same condition. But for many of us, our bodies’ cry for adequate nutrition is masked, or usurped by less basic needs that seem more immediate to us. So many of us go about malnourished, withering, weakening, and unable to recognize or feed the most basic and gnawing need we have.
Many of us actually look with contempt upon those who have fewer layers of baggage, or who have systematically found their way through the symptoms, and thus are able to recognize, feed and seek solace from the deprivation of the their most basic need.
Blessed are the broken, for they shall be mended.