to desire without an object

covetousness=attachment

"We must not seek the void, for it would be tempting God if we counted on supernatural bread to fill it. We must not run away from it either."

Rather, Weil is calling for us to preserve the void (suspension) so that we might continuously reap from it. We must accept the void. Once we 'know' it, there is no longer any void. Our job is not to figure out who God is, but to follow him with everything in us. Once we figure him out, he is no longer God (he is a finite shadow glimmering upon the cave walls).

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

If we are to understand God as eternal, we must also understand His depth (or complexity) as infinite. Any form of lack that we undergo as human beings is never a temporal lack - for all things temporal die and vanish in the void. These things are mere shadows of an eternal lack that through our limited perspective satisfy only temporarily. Our only real lack is ever God. All else is simply a gift, undeserved and rarely gratuitous.

"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33)

How often I put myself before you Lord, and how unknowingly ungrateful I am for all you have provided. May I renew my mind daily and see the wonder of your creation as a gift. May I learn myself as lacking nothing, for your spirit dwelleth within me. May I also understand my brothers and sisters without lack so that I might learn to Love them in their completeness that is also within me. I am full and grateful for your Love.

"To say to Christ: I will never deny Thee' was to deny him already, for it was supposing the source of faithfulness to be in himself and not in grace."

Too often, we expect our love to look a certain way, to feel a certain warmth, and to play out in a certain direction. How foolish we have become. Love is never this contrived. Love is supernatural and must be accompanied by grace which does not come from us, but from God, through us. The infinite working through the finite. we are that intersection.

"To implore man is a desperate attempt through sheer intensity to make our system of values pass into him. To implore God is just the contrary: it is an attempt to make the divine values pass into ourselves. Far from thinking with all the intensity of which we are capable of the values to which we are attached, we must preserve an interior void."

non-objectificaion=rehumanization

Let God be God so that you might be you.