"Empty" | Sheet Music

"Empty" by Emily Summerhays

Arranged by W Paul Pulsipher

"The song “Empty” is written from the standpoint of Mary Magdalene as she walked to the tomb early on that first Easter morning. What kind of trauma had she personally endured the previous days watching her friend and master be falsely accused, beaten, humiliated, and sentenced to die a barbaric death on a cross, all the while knowing he had the power to stop all of it but didn’t? 

While I can’t comprehend, I can imagine she felt shock, denial, numbness, and emptiness as she struggled to understand and process what she had witnessed. And then to have Him stand before her… I can’t even imagine what she must have felt!

Though our griefs and our trauma may look different, I’m sure all of us can relate, on some level, to those feelings of emptiness. And yet, like Mary, as we sit in our empty places, He comes to us with compassion, understanding, wholeness. He can fill all our griefs, brokenness, and sorrows, and leave us full of His light, love, and grace. He begs of us to come to him with our hurt, fears, and questions, and remember that “Because that sacred tomb is empty, we don’t have to be”"

-Emily