C. S. Lewis thought that God meets us in experiences which have no proper English names. Lewis gave to such experiences the name 'Sehnsucht,' a German term rooted in 'sehnen' (to long for, to yearn after) and 'sucht' (sickness, passion, rage). 'Sehnsucht' thus means a passionate longing. 'Gottesehnsucht' (God-longing) identifies the place where this longing is meant to rest--in God Himself.
"For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things." Psalm 107:9
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