I cried my eyes out as I walked into the room finding Chloe on her knees after Joshua’s accident, asking Jesus to please give her daddy back to her because she misses him, needs him, wants him, and knows He can do anything. She climbed right into the void of her pain and sadness of her heart and gave it right to Jesus…the only One who can fill our voids.
Every one of us has voids…whether we’re single, married, children or no children, have lost a great love in our life, going through a difficult time, or feeling broken from something happening….we ALL unfortunately have them. And it’s up to us what we do with them and how we handle these voids. And it’s also of the utmost importance whether we climb into them and get stuck, or climb into them and allow Jesus to come flooding in.
During the first three years after losing my Joshie Pie, I climbed into every emotional void and poured myself out like an offering to the Lord. I knew I had to or I wouldn’t make it. And knew if I didn’t, I would get stuck and become very angry, bitter, and resentful. I did have moments in my voids where I had pauses, and then found my way back to pouring myself out to Jesus again.
There are so many emotions swirling around inside those voids that it becomes like a spiraling tornado…tossing you around in every direction at a high speed. And if we’re not careful, we will get stuck in them and then disastrous emotions will take root and start growing even bigger and branching out into more. And that’s when un-forgiveness, anger, jealousy, bitterness, resentment, hate, and hurt start coming into play in our daily life. They come in through our words, actions, and our character. We get easily agitated and say hurtful words; doing things we will more than likely regret; and these emotions start stacking and stacking on top of each other and then our daily life, one day after another turns into weeks, months and years that we have let the voids of our life take over.
As hard and painful as it is…because sometimes it just feels easier to stay hidden in those voids…we can’t! Our voids don’t get fulfilled when we are alone in them. We have to invite Jesus to come into these voids with us…to soothe and comfort us; to nurture and heal us; to change us and our situations that brought about the void. It’s not easy sometimes. It takes work and sometimes you may even pause like I have and still do sometimes because we’re so human, but I promise you when we let the good seeds of God come into the voids…His root of blessings and good changes start taking hold and growing and prospering.
When you climb into your next void…will you get stuck or let Jesus come flooding in to receive comfort and healing?
We’re in this life together, so let’s encourage each other to cross the finish line strong!
Hugs, Love & Blessings ~ Audrey