Finding Margin Space

I have to admit, finding margin space is something I have to work hard at. 

Although it might look like I have it all together, the truth is I don’t. I worry about the future, considering how I never thought I’d be where I am right now. I’m anxious over the financial responsibilities that come with owning a home and preparing our oldest for college. I wonder about what doors to knock on, professionally speaking, and how to balance ministry passions with the need for additional family income.

Finding Margin Space

Do you struggle with these issues too? Are you also spinning your wheels trying to figure it all out and meet all sorts of needs?

In the face of these concerns, I feel a challenge by God to walk in deeper faith. And that faith requires saying “no” to many things in order to say “yes” to margin space . . . space that allows me to rest, enjoy my family, and draw closer to the Lord.

I could so easily fill the unknown of this season with worry and a furry of busy! Do you find yourself doing this as well?

Yet, could it be that God is calling us to pause, rest, and find space to savor more of Him and the good gifts He’s already poured into our life?

Wouldn’t you agree that the margin space we crave feels lost to the demands upon us? So how do we push back on the responsibilities that feel so necessary, like work or ministry or even cultivating meaningful relationships? We need to work to pay the bills, don’t we?  We need to fix a meal to feed our bodies and go to church to feed our souls?  We need clean clothes, right, so the laundry can’t be totally neglected? It’s good to spend time investing in our loved ones, but does that mean we have to push our chores aside?

How do we say “no” to something that feels so necessary in order to find the space we need to breathe?

Even though I’ve been passionate about cultivating margin space in my life and filling my time with priority choices for more than a decade, I think I’ll always be on the journey of learning how to say “no” to the too much and “yes” to breathing space. It’s my nature to spin a dozen plates at once, but as I’ve said more than once, it’s what’s on those plates that needs careful evaluation and Holy Spirit led follow-through.

So it’s time to go back to the basics of cultivating margin space in my life through honest reflection, prayerful evaluation, and authentic accountability, and I’m excited to invite you to join me in this holy process.

Oh yes, it’s a life-giving, soul-refreshing endeavor in which I’ve seen God bear fruit time and time again. Are you ready to experience this for yourself?

Get alone with God to pinpoint the necessary steps you should take towards finding much needed margin space in your life. Yes, it’s an exercise of faith as you let go and trust God more.

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