a moth who would be king

God loves us, God needs us.  My soul too.  So then take it dear God because it knows that You are all it should want and if it were wise You would be all it would want and the times it thinks wise, You are all it does want, and it wants more and more to want You.  Its demands are absurd.  It’s a moth who would be king, a stupid slothful thing, a foolish thing, who wants God, who made the earth, to be its Lover.  Immediately.  If only I could hold God in my mind.  If I could only always just think of Him.

-from A Prayer Journal, Flannery O'Connor