Empty Spaces

Our lives are full of empty spaces.

Gaps and holes that we hunger to fill with meaning.

As children we expect our family and friends to fill these voids and occasionally some succeed. Sadly, in may cases, they fail us because they are also expecting reciprocal completeness through their children, family, and friends. And so this cycle of need continues. Partners, in many ways, represent the very relationship that can seemingly succeed in making us feel whole; hence the term “better half”. More likely than not, we will still have several significant areas that require other relationships for our completeness to take place. Some may find close friendships are the final touch that’s needed. Still, many will continue to seek and go from relationship to relationship, or even multiple relationships, striving to satisfy the hunger that gnaws within them.

We are told that God in Jesus Christ provides the true fulfilling that we seek and crave. But even more surprising is the mystery that we still need others to properly complete us. The people we are journeying with through living, loving, and learning, become the incarnate body of Christ. Through becoming part of this new body we find our purpose and the source of all things we have been desperate to have in our lives. We no longer see ourselves as the main body that needs the parts of others but that we are a part of something much larger, grander, and oh so magnificent.