Emptiness

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Basically I have arrived at a point where I just feel empty inside as though there is no purpose. I am not really religious though I have had points in my life where I was and now I have come to a point where I just feel empty. I think it stems from two things the first being I can’t trust people, I never really been a trusting person and the last time I did it ended up badly and ever sense I have simply not trusted anyone even my closest friends. The the second part is I don’t want to care, just not care about others that I think stems from me asking a friend out a couple weeks ago and getting rejected and ever sense I just wish I wouldn’t care and yet I do, this friend made me happy and now I just wish I would forget that. Any advice?
Yes this account is a “dummy account” just because I don’t want it connected to anything else.
 
You are not alone. I too have felt that way. Do not give in to the temptation of thinking or feeling that you have no purpose. You are here for a reason even if you do not know what it is. Feeling emptiness is often a normal experience. It is where we feel the longing for God’s presence. There is only One who can fill the emptiness and that is God so wait patiently for Him. He will come and fill you up.

You may be experiencing grief toward your friend. I felt the way you feel for about three years. Do not give up hope. Your friend, as much as you love him/her cannot fill the emptiness. I suggest letting go and entrusting your friend into God’s hands. I know that what you are experiencing is very difficult but I believe it is a temptation. What worked for me was praying relentlessly to be filled and focusing on simple beauty. Practice being grateful even if you don’t FEEL it.

I myself also was experiencing rejection. You are not rejected by God. As long as you are still alive God’s mercy is open to you and available. I really do know what you are experiencing. Keep moving forward and NEVER give up!

Oh yeah! You can trust God. He will never leave you nor harm you. Ask for someone who is trustworthy to come into your life who will be a beacon of light for you.
 
i don’t think you are here by accident and whether you feel you can’t trust others, you can trust God. this is the first step for you and God is calling you back to him. “our hearts are restless until they rest in thee” St. Augustine. Since you are feeling empty and low, you have come to the right place and a new start for yourself. you are in my prayers.
 
account34,

When you pray, what are your petitions?

Do you ask to be filled up?
Do you ask to be given the grace to know when to trust whom?
Do you ask to be granted emotional and relational healing?

If you don’t ask for these things, I will suggest that you start today, right now if possible. I have been finding prayer to be so efficacious that it’s pretty much what I would recommend to fix any broken heart.
 
perhaps you will find something in here that helps - z13.invisionfree.com/DominamStellaMaris/index.php?showtopic=57

i don’t think there’s anyone in this life who has not been disappointed in someone else, or who has not disappointed someone else…the problem seems to be that we expect to much from each other, but one thing that helps, at least for me, is just putting yourself if their shoes, do you think they would be so upset if you disappointed them? or would you at least hope they wouldn’t be? and also ask yourself, was what they did to disappoint you a really big deal to them? did they mean to hurt you? or are you a bit over sensitive?
i hope you don’t take these questions the wrong way, i really don’t mean anything by them, because obviously i don’t know you, and i don’t know much about your situation, but they are important things to ask yourself,
well…whether this helps or not, i will keep you in my prayers…but feel free to check out the other articles on that site too.
take care.
 
First, I will pray for you, since I can’t do anything else directly.

Second, the other posters above me are very wise.

Third, I don’t know if this will help today, but maybe it will help someday - God will sometimes allow us to go through rough times, knowing full well that we will be all right in the end. He also knows that down the road, your story may inspire someone else to not give up. Please remember that suffering is NEVER meaningless. We join with Christ’s infinite suffering on the cross, and no matter what you are feeling, Jesus understands and empathizes.
 
I don’t know I’m not sure it will ever go away but thank you.
 
***Faith of a Forgotten God
**
Remember men, the faith of a forgotten God,
from time of old and when the world was new.
Led strong they were, by the staff and the rod,
unto the desert beyond Egypt, through the sea.
The word was God, and not through trials few,
that God was God and a faith in Him might be.

A strong hand bonded men since, across time,
and His words remains like stars marking space.
Psalms of prayer to God, in a forgotten rhyme,
are read with a solitary breath upon a starry eve.
Whispers to the Lord, to look upon a holy face,
intercessions and hopes, which men conceive.

But now a world grows dark and men so cold,
more shadows move forth from the fires about.
A faith has grown weak as lives soon grow old,
these men of the west, men fading into the east.
To men evil lays claim as souls are holding out,
it is God who is God holding His victory feast.

As prophets and saints speak now and forever,
only hearts of faith shall listen, listen and learn.
To seek them always, so as to hear them never,
is death and dust that fill the soul and the mind.
Needed is the dust of the desert and to discern,
to seek what sons of the desert do always find.*
 
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I don’t know I’m not sure it will ever go away but thank you.
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I felt that way too. It doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with you. Sometimes things just need to be endured rather than fixed or changed. Just don’t give up. If God brought you to it, He will see you through it.
 
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