Jump out of the void
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void.” Genesis
In her book Finding Your Way Home, Melody Beattie explains what this passage means to her.
He was talking about courting the void — that dark, mysterious and sometimes painfully frightening place of nothingness from which all creation occurs. … It’s that place in our lives where what we’ve been hanging on to — clinging to for dear life — is stripped away. It’s that place in us where we let go of what we know, what we think we know, and what we want and surrender to the unknown. It means standing there with our hands empty for a while, sometimes watching everything we wanted disappear.
So what does that all mean to you and me?
It means that sometimes the most beautiful moments of our lives come from what may seem like utter nothingness, times of total darkness swirling winds and thunderous storms.
It means that sometimes we have to scrap all our plans and designs and to do lists and start from scratch.
It means that sometimes those things we’re clinging to are the very things dragging us to the bottom.
It means not having all the answers before the test begins.
It means dropping what’s in our hands so we can grasp something better, something more.
It means choosing an uncertain future over an unfulfilled past.
It means going home — finding that feeling inside where we’re comfortable, at peace.
How did I know when the time was right to jump into the unknown? I just knew. You’ll just know. One day you won’t, and the next day you will. That’s the day life begins again.
“God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even — especially — the ones that hurt the most.” Melody Beattie
”Quit hanging on to the handrails. Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.” Make Room for Miracles