When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that people seek to fill emotional voids in their lives often by seeking new attachments or distractions.
Yasmin Mogahed's quote highlights the human tendency to avoid dealing with feelings of emptiness and loss. The pain of such emptiness can be so overwhelming that it drives individuals to seek new relationships or distractions in an attempt to alleviate their emotional suffering. Rather than processing and healing from their experiences, people often rush to fill the void, leading to a cycle of attachments and distractions without true resolution.
Themes
EmptinessAttachmentDistractionPainRelationships
In practice
Example use cases
During a counseling session about coping with loss.
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