It’s resurrection Sunday. He is RISEN!
This day is beautiful.
This day is joyful.
And it is life- giving.
And it is hope- giving.
It’s a startling thing to me though. This day of wonderful celebration centers around something being empty. The tomb of Jesus that is.
Perhaps it is just me, but I don’t often (okay… never really) celebrate feeling emptiness in my life. Whether it be in relationships, jobs, goals, or just energy levels, it is usually a very negative feeling. I feel defeated and well… empty.
Like Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb, I often want to weep (in sadness) when I encounter “empty.”
Therefore, this day causes me to pause.
Emptiness is a good thing in the resurrection story and it can be a good thing in our lives too if we let it.
We are often solely negative towards “emptiness” in our lives because we fail to understand the circumstance for what it is.
An opportunity to be filled with Him and by Him.
Today and tomorrow and always, like that first morning of the resurrection, Jesus is here and He is alive, completely filling us if we let Him.
We are truly never empty in Him. It’s a reason to celebrate. Emptiness and all.
Speaking of empty, this blog has remained empty until today. While I have wanted to jump in and join the blogging world for quite some time, I kept stalling. Basically I felt like I had nothing to blog about. I couldn’t even figure out the first post! However, today I decided to get my feet wet and just jump in!