The sad, and many times painful, hollow inside ourselves is a grace that invites a person towards the river of living water that only Jesus can give. Our emptiness is our looking glass revealing before our eyes the fleeting satisfaction we can enjoy from all created things. Like thirst and hunger that returns after few hours of the previous meal, emptiness visits us, and invites us to seek the presence of God in our lives from where we can draw a filling of our souls that will never be exhausted.
Encountering oppositions and criticisms can mean that we have at last taken a stand worthy of our gifts. But what we need to be careful about in facing the strong winds in our lives is the temptation to forget that we stood strong and tall against the elements not on our own strength but through the grace of God that works in us. Forgetting this truth will make the triumph against the wind as meaningless as our fall before it. For either way does not make us closer to the God who loves us endlessly.
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