Night hunters

I hear the animals calling to one another outside my monastery window. It is pre-dawn. They are hunting for food. Maybe they might prefer to sleep in the night, but this is the best time for hunting for them. They will starve if they do not eat.

Am I hungry for God? Are you? When do you get up to be fed? I sometimes want to sleep into the morning. But I get up in the pre-dawn, late into the night, and search for my God. I have to know that without God I too starve within the cave of my heart. The day is too busy with other things. I need to feast upon God without interruption, with no other focus. Do you feast? When? Are you starving?