In an experiment done a few years ago, resesarchers gave a group of college students two choices.  Would they like to live in a perfectly tuned environment, an environment absent of all problems and heartaches, but an environment in which they had no opportunity to discover anything about it?  Or would they prefer to live in an environment with headaches, problems, and challenges, yet an environment which they could manipulate, explore, and touch every moment they were in it?
     Most of the students opted for the second choice.  Why?  They would rather live in a world in which they could find and discover things, rather than a world, although it is devoid of problems, offers no hope for finding a meaningful way to live in it.  They wanted to feel and know meaning, any kind of meaning; they wanted to know that they were more than well manicured robots in a sterile and seemingly safe environment.  Regardless of the challenges that attended living in an open-ended way, they wanted to know that if they wished to do so, they could live in a manner that allowed them to find out why they were alive and here in the world.  They wanted to know that they could find meaning.
     As do we.  We all live for meaning.
     Or do we?  In Walden Two, psychologist B. F. Skinner presents his version of a utopia, a society composed of people who have been essentially programmed to be happy.  But what's missing from this picture?  What's missing is the opportunity for these people to discover, on their own, happiness, to uncover, by virtue of their own volition and will, what life means for them, and them alone.
     Finding meaning can be difficult.  Some of us spend all our lives looking for it.  But if we opt to have meaning without taking the journey to it, though we may be happy, we are, in the end, no more than things, happy things, but things, nonetheless.  We really haven't found anything.
     So look for meaning.  You won't be disappointed.  We live in a meaningful world.
     Enjoy the inexhaustibility of God's creation.