Make Room
Recently I just started reading a book written by a friend
of mine, Colber Prosper, titled “No Entry”. In the introduction he quotes Mary
Oliver who wrote, “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable”. There
are some things that are just easier to believe. Easier because, we can imagine
those things as being possible. But what about the things we can’t imagine? Can
we “make room” to believe in something we can’t even imagine being possible? This
is exactly what we, Christians, are asking people to do when we share our faith
and ask others to not only believe in a God they’ve never seen but to believe
that the same God who created the universe and spoke stars and planets into
existence: knows them, cares about them, and wants a connection with them.
Indeed that can be a difficult thing to imagine and make room for, especially
when we are filling ourselves and “our hearts” with so much.
Buzzzz, slap, snooze, wake, swipe, like, swipe again,
breakfast selfie, like, post, snap, look, fix, swoosh, oh hey what are you
doing, post, swipe, school, work, practice, like, post, hello, did you, are you, will you,
home, log in, out, check status, update status, swipe, add, poke, like
Indeed we fill our hearts and lives with so much that is
simply just noise. Author and speaker Eric Samuel Timm in his book “Static
Jedi” refers to the noise that fills our life as something that is there to
distract us from clarity. We must make room and to do so means beginning by
cleaning out some of the noise.
Now understand I’m online as much, if not more, that any
other average person out there. So I’m not saying “down with social media”.
That said, what I am saying is that we must make sure that we are not so
engaged with it that we have no room for the beautiful, remarkable and yes the
unimaginable.
Beyond clearing out the noise I would also encourage we make
room by reconsidering what is possible…what we can imagine. I just wonder what
we could make room for this week?
