Empty

I woke up this morning and went off to work. There was an empty feeling this morning. Not really sure what caused it. Sometimes our lives get that emptiness to them. Not the good emptiness of opening ourselves up to Christ, but the feeling that something is missing, that we are alone, that we have been abandoned. I tried to understand the feeling, but the answer never came. The feeling left as I had the chance to interact with others. My wife started the day off right and the feeling abated, then the people I work with and the students I teach continued to fill that empty feeling. This was truly the body   of Christ at work and, by days end, I felt normal again.
  Sometimes this life sucks our energy from us. We really live in chaos most of the time, just trying to muddle through and get something out of it. The only real life, is Jesus.  My morning prayer routine includes listening to modern Christian worhp music on the way to work. And God let me know that He understood where I was in this day. The song was STARS by switch foot. The song spoke what I was somehow feeling, and gave me the same hope I look for every day, that God is present, with me, supporting me, helping me.
   The world can get to us, but there is more than this life. We need to keep this in mind as we try to do our best to follow in the footsteps of grace. We stumble. We fall. We feel lost. But the Father's love is always calling us back. Always filling our lives. Always mending the broken, comforting the lonely and sorrowful. His love is beyond understanding.
   His love touches us everyday. Even when we feel empty.