Day Three // February 28 // Emptiness “Once I knew only darkness and stillness; my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” – Helen Keller –
Once we fail to eat fully of the fruit of love with God and each other, we are left with the rotten fruit of emptiness. If love brings a feeling of connectedness and well-being, the rotten fruit of emptiness brings loneliness, hopelessness and self-absorption. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the great American poet and Harvard professor, was still grieving over his wife three years after she died. He couldn’t seem to move ahead in his life, but one particular day changed all that. Longfellow realized that his life was slipping by without really living it. He was stuck in emptiness. He realized that he needed to embrace love and begin to live again.
