Make Room

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?