Love, Pray, Eat - a slightly different take

First off, this is 100% not a movie review - don't worry, my blog is staying true to the random theological thoughts I have!

In the movie Eat, Pray, Love (and I'm sure in the book version, too), the main character finally starts to relax and find herself once she forgives herself for her divorce.  As she's meditating in India, she makes the statement:

God dwells in me - as me.

I can agree with this - God does not pick and choose who He dwells in, as He created all and made humanity in His image and likeness.  Though we, as Catholics, believe in His true presence in the Eucharist, and therefore believe that we consume the Body of Christ, becoming more fully the Body of Christ as we share our lives, God was, of course, already in us before that physical consumption.  How could you say "God is in everyone" if God was not in you, or in me, as well?

But the thing is, I don't think this statement is complete.  To be fully human, to be truly ourselves, to be fully me, we have to look to God.  Yes, God dwells in us just the way we are - He meets us where we are at every moment - but He constantly wants to walk with us to a place even greater.  There is no limit.  We have to be able to accept ourselves as ourselves right now, but that doesn't mean we just stop.  Accept yourself, find peace, and then grow in that peace!  In the words of Augustine, we have to find rest in God - otherwise, we will always be restless.  We can't be complete until we have found our true selves, our true lives, within God.  Therefore, I would add a second part to this statement:

God dwells in me - as me.

But I am not really me until I fully dwell in God.

God accepts us for who we are, and we need to accept ourselves, too.  But to do that, we have to look to God - otherwise, we'll always be missing a part of ourselves and will always be restless.