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    This document discusses the themes of emptiness, wilderness, and wasteland. It notes that we are born with nothing and spend our lives seeking things to fill the emptiness within us, but that physical things are fleeting and do not provide lasting satisfaction. Our constant searching leaves the world as growing wildernesses and wastelands. True fulfillment is only found in God, who alone can fill the void within us. Without God, even if we have everything, we ourselves become wasted.

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    Reflection Ni Lyn

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    This document discusses the themes of emptiness, wilderness, and wasteland. It notes that we are born with nothing and spend our lives seeking things to fill the emptiness within us, but that physical things are fleeting and do not provide lasting satisfaction. Our constant searching leaves the world as growing wildernesses and wastelands. True fulfillment is only found in God, who alone can fill the void within us. Without God, even if we have everything, we ourselves become wasted.

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    Empty Space

    “The wasteland grows. Woe to him with harbors the wasteland. Our earth is not on earth of
    calculation. If this remains such, only God can save us.”
    There is a beautiful quote from Pope Francis that says, ‘The wilderness outside us is growing
    because the wilderness within us have grown vast.’ It took me some time to digest the words of
    the Pope. Then it dawned on me how true his words were. However, his views were very
    positive compared to the quotation stated above. But I guess there is some truth lying between
    the words wasteland and wilderness.
    After 9 months of uncertain beginnings of life inside our mother’s womb, we struggle to be alive.
    We came out exactly naked, with clinched fists but possessing nothing nor bringing nothing
    except a cry for security and perhaps, sufficiency. Then we grew up together with that emptiness
    and longing for fullness which has turned a giant over time. Then it leads us towards going to
    where our hearts could be filled and that emptiness within us be satisfied. Perhaps, beautiful
    things could fill us. But no, for things are passing and beauty, fleeting. Then we thought, maybe
    love and emotions could satisfy us. But no for emotions are never constant and love is painful;
    and no one loves pain; thus we give up right there the moment we experience its thorns. So then
    our search for that which satisfies and fills us lingers and has become an impulse of our actions.
    And oftentimes when we are haunted by this feeling, we seem to acquire almost everything and
    by everything I mean even the world or at least what’s within it. We take almost everything
    leaving behind emptiness in the world. What is left are growing wildernesses and wastelands for
    oftentimes we take and leave nothing behind but footprints of our greed and selfishness. The
    earth is victim of it. She always has.
    We have forgotten that beyond everything we see is that generous God who has created us for
    Him and the world around us. Thus because He created us for Him, in Him alone do we find
    fullness and satisfaction. He alone can fill that void within. That wilderness. For without Him,
    even if we have everything in the world making it a wasteland of nothingness, truly it’s us who
    have grown into a garbage dump, more wasted than a wasteland. God alone suffices. He alone
    fills that empty space within.

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