Starting at Empty
Emptiness is not a natural state. It’s the Still Point when the world stops turning one direction and starts turning another.
It is a moment; a start; a bedrock position.
People reach emptiness after trying everything else to keep filled up.
Emptiness is the awareness that the personal world is shattered and in pieces. There is nothing else to do and we are left with just
being
empty.
Emptiness is an attitude; a choice.
Before emptiness, we are filled with ourselves and we are blind often to our desperate needs. Instead we struggle to keep plates spinning, to keep people happy, or in-line, or at least out of our business.
We think we can fix our problems before emptiness; after emptiness, we know for certain that we cannot.
Emptiness is a positive choice and its alternative (and what preceded it) is self-deception -- which can lead to hepelessness, despair and the belief that we are victims with no choices but to accept the dregs of life -- ironically not seeing that we have just made a terrible decision to stay in darkeness.
To pour out this bad option or direction is then, for a moment to be empty. Like an empty grocery cart, but this time it is wise to wait for God to begin his filling process. What does this mean? Just wait and see.