I remember a song of some years back that I never liked. The singer screamed as much as he sang, and he repeated the words over and over again. But the message and the title of the song I remember well, and so will you: "I can't get no satisfaction!"

As we think about our lives today, is it not true that there are those days, those weeks, and those periods in our lives when we could easily intone with great feeling, "I can't get no satisfaction"?

My big, red, unabridged power-dictionary I quote now and then defines the verb satisfy in this way: to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of a person or the mind; to give full contentment to desire, want or need by sufficient or ample provision.

We all know that according to this definition we are not always a satisfied people, who …