For What It's Worth by Erin

W H P P = The four things that get in the way of our relationship with God.

Let’s begin with St. Augustine. As a young man, nothing satisfied. Like all human beings, he used the four things (W H P P), to no avail. All that he tried, failed. One day, frustrated and in tears, the Saint heard a child’s voice from a nearby house that repeated over and over again “Take and read, take and read.”
 
St. Augustine took this as a divine command, opened the scriptures, and read the first passage his eyes met on the page:

“Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in debauchery and impurity, not in contention and envy, but put on the Lord Jesus…”

 
This moment changed his life. He discarded his old self and set about finding God, and found Him through Jesus Christ. We learn from Augustine these four things never satisfy. I like the acronym so I don’t forget them: Wealth, Honor, Pleasure, Power. These things never fill the emptiness that was created for God alone.
 
St. Augustine said it best: “You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” St. Augustine also said, “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” And he would know! +