That unsatisfied emptiness
Sister Eliza R. Snow said that the Holy Ghost "satisfies and fills up every longing of the human heart, and fills up every vacuum. When I am filled with that Spirit," she continued, "my soul is satisfied, and I can say in good earnest, that the trifling things of the day do not seem to stand in my way at all. But just let me lose my hold of that spirit and power of the Gospel, and partake of the spirit of the world, in the slightest degree, and trouble comes; there is something wrong. I am tired, and what will comfort me? You cannot impart comfort to me that will satisfy the immortal mind, but that which comes from the Fountain above. And is it not our privilege to so live that we can have this constantly flowing into our souls?" - Daughters in My Kingdom, Ch. 4, pp. 46 It's astonishing the number of times I "partake of the spirit of the world, in the slightest degree," which then puts me in a fowl mood at times or makes me simply "tired, an...