Making Space

There is a very old and too often ignored fact of life. If you stop talking and doing constantly — if you release yourself from the bondage of existence as a human doing — the odds are pretty good that your life will improve. No matter how good it already is.

We’re taught that it’s dangerous to stop doing. If we aren’t constantly moving, if we aren’t controlling everything and everybody around us, what’s the point? Life is entirely out of control when we are not in charge. Someone else may mistakenly assume that they are in charge of their own life. Clearly, that is wrong. Another person’s life can only run the right way when we are in control. Not them.

That is the thinking of a human doing struggling for control.

Making space in our lives not to be in absolute control may feel like being out of control. When we’re willing to make space in our souls not to control the entire universe does that cramped feeling start to go away. That tightness in our chest. The feeling of a clamp around our head.

Replacing ourselves at the center of creation with the Creator makes space in our souls.

It makes space in our lives for real life.

We thought that any adjustments in life, especially when it’s instigated by another person, can never be good. We thought change can only work if it is tightly and strictly controlled by us.

Never add even one grain of salt too much to the stew that is your life. It might make your life imbalanced. So say some people.

What happens when we shake off that idea?

When we open up make space in our lives to live?

When we scarcely begin to consider living outside the bounds of our tightly constricted lives? It’s not that somebody else has tied us up. No one else has put us inside a box and sealed it tight.

We do that to ourselves.

Our young lives are full of people telling us what we should do. Where we ought to go. Who we ought to be seen with at any given time.

If we live life the way we are told as adults, it’s because we make that choice.

When we are honest with ourselves, we acknowledge that we could have made different decisions than we have. For example, for many years I was told that I could have a profession entirely different from my work in finance. Experts told me that I could use my spiritual skills to be a professional psychic and author. I could travel. Do interviews on radio and television.

I could make big bucks from my God-given talents.

The problem being that I had other priorities. There were — are — other goals in my life which are more important to me. In my life I found it more important to make space for the needs of others over my own desires. Which means I had to put the Creator and others before what I might want.

Who chooses God over money?

That is a pretty crazy way to live. When someone could have money and cars and things, choosing not to have material goods in favor of spiritual matters is simply outrageous.

To which I can truthfully answer, Yes. And so what?

So what if I make space for spirituality in my life instead of a bigger bank account? Once upon a time I had the nice suits, the fancy shoes, a fancy apartment and all that jazz. None of it filled my soul.

It was not as important as waking up in the morning to be greeted by my guardian angel. It lacked the excitement of angels everywhere stopping to say Hello and chat with me. Because that is what angels do with all of us. Walking down a street and chatting with a spirit who had lived thousands of years earlier in that same spot was far more interesting than having things I didn’t need.

Because I made the space for a spirited life rather than a theoretically privileged life.

The actual privilege is in making space in our lives for real life. For people who need our presence over people who only want our presents. For work which serves others more than it serves us.

When we open up our lives to the Spirit, we can say something new.

I can breathe.