Like most moms I find myself constantly running on empty. The gas tank gets empty on the mornings when I am running late and don't have time to stop. The cabinets and fridge always seem to become empty during the weeks where I don't have the time and energy to go to the grocery store. The closets and dressers get empty and when that happens it means the laundry room is FULL so that's not good either! I'm sure most moms can relate to all of this plus much, much more.
All of these things sometimes leave me feeling mentally & emotionally empty. Like yesterday, we had a GREAT Memorial Weekend with my cousin and her family. So much love and laughter going on for 2 days made the kids and I so happy & lighthearted. And then we had to say goodbye. We head down the road and the empty feeling sets in around me. The feeling of missing my family already. The heaviness of knowing that I'm going home to a pile of dirty clothes and a roof that will be leaking weighs down my mind and heart. The reality of the week ahead and the bills that are due totally empty's that happy lighthearted feeling that I'd had. Then the kids fall asleep and then the car really seemed empty. Its and hour and a half drive home and I was running on empty ( not the gas tank this time though thank you Jesus). But He used this empty moment to teach me. As I was driving the scenic rout through the Hoosier National Forest the sun was shinning through the trees, the beauty of creation showing all around and I started to talk to Jesus about my empty feeling. I started to tell Him what was making me feel empty. I was honest with my Heavenly Father. I didn't have to hide the empty feeling from Him. I didn't have to really explain it to Him either! He knows already because he knows my heart. He knows my heart because I chose to let him live there. I chose to let him fill me with His Holy Spirit, follow Him and accept the position He gave me as His precious daughter. I am never truly empty because I am His! Jesus is always there ready to fill me if I just ask Him. That place where we feel empty is never out of His reach. Its my choice to live in emptiness or live in the fullness of Jesus. I'm thankful that yesterday He took one of my empty moments to remind me of how full I really am when I'm looking at Him. Scriptures for Today: ~ 2 Corinthians 6:18 " I will be a father to you and you will be my sons and Daughters, says the Lord Almighty". ~ Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit . ~ Ephesians 3:14-19 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God..
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