dailydatewithgod

There are moments in our lives when we feel like we have nothing.  Whether or not that is actually true is another story, but I believe it is a universal human experience at some point to feel devoid of something.  It could be physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually empty.  There are moments when we sense that there is not enough of what we need to get us through whatever it is. Yet instead of recognizing what little we might have and that it is not enough, we go with the idea that we have nothing.  It seems to fall into the same category of not knowing if the answer is right, so saying we don’t have one.  Maybe it is a black-white perspective we carry from our childhood.  Maybe it is those of us who fall prey to perfectionistic tendencies.  Regardless of the reason why we are invited to look behind the label of empty.  Given that we are not hollow or void of anything we truly need despite how we feel as that would simply not make sense in a world created from the abundance of love, what does it mean when we say we are or feel empty. In moments when I was sure I did not have the intellectual capacity to wrap my head around an idea, I felt empty.  In times when I could have sworn, I was going to die from lack of food I thought my stomach was empty.  In the experience of the world today I have often felt empty of the emotional capacity to be there for others in a way I would want to be.  God invites us as vessels of love to face these ideas of empty and finds masquerading behind it more of our ideas based on our expectations of ourselves, others, and the world around us. Empty could be a way of communicating that because we cannot see the plan of life within what we are happening we do not have what is needed to survive it.  Empty could be our way of indicating we humbly recognize our limitations.  Empty either good or bad is an invitation into surrendering to who we are as interdependent.  We like to think of ourselves as self-sustaining. When we are empty of that self-sustenance, we may just have the eyes to see what a gift it is to be alive and connected to each other, God, and the world.   Empty can be our invitation to expand what we know of ourselves to be into a living and breathing reality of interconnectedness with all of life.