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Or it can be a dull ache, sometimes passing, sometimes persistent and often resulting in tears.","13 juin 2021","08:48","2021-06-13T08:48:34+02:00",{"url":14,"alt":14,"url_carre":14,"alt_carre":14},"",[16],{"id":17,"name":18,"code":19,"shortname":20,"liveURL":21,"alias":22,"region":23,"channelId":26},"34365","RCF Poitou Vienne","RCF86","Poitou Vienne","\u002F\u002Frcf.streamakaci.com\u002Frcf86.mp3","\u002Fpoitou-vienne",{"id":24,"name":25},"34176","Nouvelle-Aquitaine",null,{"id":28,"type":29,"title":8,"digas":30,"published":10,"datetime":31,"description":9,"url_linked_article":5,"visual":32,"show":35,"duration":41,"radios":42,"audio_file":53,"rolls":54},"78859","episode","PO-5572","2021-06-13T08:45:00+02:00",{"alt":33,"url":34,"url_carre":14,"copyright":14},"RCFPoitou-EG","https:\u002F\u002Fmedia.rcf.fr\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fstyles\u002F{style_name}\u002Fpublic\u002F2023-09\u002FPerspectives_0.png.webp",{"id":36,"title":37,"alias":38,"visual":39,"description":40},"6458","Perspectives - Espace spirituel anglophone","\u002Fvie-spirituelle\u002Fespace-spirituel-anglophone",{"url":34,"alt":33,"url_carre":14,"alt_carre":14},"\u003Cp>Des réflexions spirituelles proposées aux anglophones - sous le titre : Perspectives\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n","600000",[43,45],{"id":17,"name":18,"code":19,"shortname":20,"liveURL":21,"alias":22,"region":44,"channelId":26},{"id":24,"name":25},{"id":46,"name":47,"code":48,"shortname":49,"liveURL":50,"alias":51,"region":52,"channelId":26},"57796","RCF Poitou Deux-Sèvres","RCF79","Poitou Deux-Sèvres","https:\u002F\u002Frcf.streamakaci.com\u002Frcf79.mp3","\u002Fpoitou-deuxsevres",{"id":24,"name":25},"https:\u002F\u002Fpodcast-prep.rcf.fr\u002FRCF86\u002FRCF86_ESPIA_20210613.mp3",{"podcast_not_roll":55},false,{"id":57,"type":58,"name":59,"alias":60,"description":61},"2","category","Vie Spirituelle","\u002Fvie-spirituelle","\u003Cp>\r\n\u003Cstyle type=\"text\u002Fcss\">\u003C!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->\r\n\u003C\u002Fstyle>\r\nRedécouvrez les fondamentaux de la foi chrétienne, les grands courants de pensée qui ont traversé l'histoire de l'Église, le sens des fêtes chrétiennes, la vie des saints, ...\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n",[63],{"id":64,"target_paragraph_type":65,"target_wysiwyg":66},"32858","wysiwyg_paragraph","\u003Cp>Usually there's a trigger. It can\u003Cbr>\nbe anything. Sometimes it's something sad, like an empty chair that reminds you of someone you've lost.\u003Cbr>\nBut it can also be something exquisitely beautiful, a sunset over the sea, a flower, a garden, a piece of\u003Cbr>\nmusic. But why should something beautiful move us to tears, make our hearts ache? It's surely because\u003Cbr>\nthere is regret there; regret not for what might have been but for what we know is going to be; regret for\u003Cbr>\nthe future. The flower, the garden, the sunset, the planet itself is ephemeral. Loss is ever present even in\u003Cbr>\nmoments of glory.\u003Cbr>\nSorrow always accompanies our pleasure and joy. We know our happiness can't last for ever, but\u003Cbr>\nwe wish it could. If only time would stop for a while we say. And our hearts reach out, yearning for the\u003Cbr>\neternal. But then, our hearts have been aching since the beginning of time, ever since Eden's gates closed\u003Cbr>\nagainst us. And here we are still knocking on the door. Will it, can it ever open to us? But eternity is only\u003Cbr>\na moment, the eternal present moment, and if we live in the present instant we can at least live life to the\u003Cbr>\nfull - and no regrets.\u003Cbr>\nBut what if the heartache becomes too much? What if it's just too painful? Your heart is breaking\u003Cbr>\nnow, torn as it is by that yearning for the eternal moment. Those who seek God are often torn by the\u003Cbr>\nsuffering of separation from the One they love. They feel it as a howling anguish in the pit of their hearts.\u003Cbr>\nThe psalms are full of such yearning: 'like the deer that yearns for running streams so my soul is yearning\u003Cbr>\nfor you, my God. My soul is thirsting for God, the God of my life; when can I enter and see the face of\u003Cbr>\nGod?' Ps 41 (42) And sometimes God takes pity on the wretched soul and takes him or her up to him to\u003Cbr>\nenjoy the bliss that is, was and will be, one with him, a consolation for faithfulness.\u003Cbr>\nJesus knew this anguish. He felt it on the cross: 'My God, my God, why have you abandoned\u003Cbr>\nme?' (Matt 27, 47)He was speaking for us all, knocking on Eden's gates. He had to accept the heartbreak\u003Cbr>\nwith us, before passing through death into the arms of the Father.\u003Cbr>\nSo, that pang in the heart, that moment when you're looking at flower or a sunset and your heart\u003Cbr>\naches with its beauty, remember, it's only the beginning, the start of the extraordinary adventure which is\u003Cbr>\nthe continuing life of the spirit moving ever nearer to God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n"]