The Problem and Potential of Emptiness
Tuesday,
January 20,
2015
Jeff Lampl
Jeff Lampl
Could
it be that we live in fear of being an “onion”?
Once I strip myself of all that I’ve given myself over to being and
becoming, what if . . . . what if I do so only to discover that there’s
nothing left? Marty Sarkissian
shares the following from what his home group has been doing.
Jeff
“when
we are empty, we feel unhealed; when we are unhealed, we can feel unworthy . . .
This is one of our fears of quiet; if we stop and listen, we will hear this
emptiness . . . if we are terrified of what we will find in rest, we will fill
the empty space . . . But this emptiness has nothing to do with our value or our
worth. All life has emptiness at its
core; it is the hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the
music that is our life. Without
that emptiness, we are clogged and unable to give birth to music, love, or
kindness . . . While our speed may keep us safe, it also keeps us
malnourished.” Prayer, touch,
kindness, fragrance – all those things that live in rest, and not in speed**
**Excerpted
from Sabbath by Wayne Mueller
**My
Reflection:
(October 2014) – The hollowness
you feel and feel guilty about – I am seeing with new eyes.
That hollowness is formed not out of a disconnect with God or others, but
is synonymous to what happens to when you plug too many plugs into one outlet.
Eventually you can overload it all and burn it out.
The “hollow” is a result of who you are being versus who God is.
**Marty Sarkissian’s
reflection
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