Why Does Your Heart Feel Empty?

366 Days of Compassion

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Have you ever dragged yourself through chores, feeling a heavy burden all the way, doing things almost mechanically and mindlessly? Have you ever spent days exhausted and feeling empty, almost failing to have the strength to finish the things you must do?

Though there are days when we must struggle and simply try our best to live through, there are times when the source of our troubles is our failure to connect to the Source of strength and inspiration.

Mother Teresa said, “Work without love is slavery.” Have we forgotten the love we must have to help us endure the most difficult days?

In the book “The Imitation of Christ”, Thomas Kempis imparted to us this wisdom:

Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal. Because it carries a burden without feeling it, and renders sweet and pleasing every bitterness.”

Where is your heart in all of those days you’ve felt empty within? Have you forgotten the love you’ve had at first?

But I have this against you, that…

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