Archbishop William Temple once noted that spiritually minded people differ from materially minded people not in that they think about different things but in that they think about the same things differently.

Now that’s a profound observation.  I wonder how many persons these days are even thinking in those terms.  All of us should be.

The human being is spiritual.  The philosopher was right.  There is a God-shaped void within us all.  But it’s not just a question about God.  How do we love?  What gives us meaning?  What sort of experience provides joy?  To what do we open our eyes widely and exclaim, “Ah-ha!”?  These are spiritual questions.  To be spiritually minded rather than materially minded is to think about things in the light of a year rather than an hour, to test value, to seek to fill that God-shaped void within us in a way that won’t allow you to wake up tomorrow empty again.