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.
Most people believe that once people gain their freedom from oppressors, they became free. History shows that's not necessarily true. Our oppressors are not outside us but within us--pride, fear, covetousness... These sinful vices keep people in bondage using chains that no amount of uprising can break.
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