Unknowingly worshipping the one true God

In today’s first reading, Acts 17: 15, 22-18:1, Paul says to the citizens of Athens (and to us):  “You Athenians (substitute your nationality),  I see that in every respect you are very religious. For as  we walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.”    At the very core of our beings is an insatiable thirst for God. The more one denies one’s  thirst and hunger for the Sacred and fails to quench it at the Fountain of Living Waters and at the Living Word of the Eucharist and the Scriptures, the stronger and wilder that thirst and hunger become.  Addictions to anything and anyone grow stronger.  People frantically try to quench the human thirst and hunger for the Divine by that which is not God. Without realizing it, when we are compulsively seeking life apart from God we are, in fact, seeking God, who is the One in whom we live and move and have our being.