Ever feel like you just don’t have enough space in life?

I’m not talking about space for your stuff and I’m not talking about space in your room or apartment.  I’m talking about space for your soul to breathe a bit.  The kind of space that gets stolen meeting by meeting, phone call by phone call, errand by errand and email by email.  We all carry around a never ending “to do” list, there’s always one more person to spend time with, one more thing to do and one more project to tackle.  And if we’re not careful, we find ourselves so over scheduled that there isn’t any more space to just live.

And it’s killing us.  It’s robbing us of joy, happiness and contentment in life.

Space to breathe is not a luxury and it can’t be a pipe dream.  It must be ingrained in the rhythm of our lives and that takes intentionality.  We all need to fight for space.  Space doesn’t just happen.  You have to make it, chose it, create it.  Look at how intentional Jesus was about creating that space in His life:

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. – Mark 1:35

I know we all want to do the same.  The only question is whether we’ll be intentional about it.