Having Capacity for Others
Another thought that has been swirling around is to pare down such that I have more capacity for myself and others. Life can have much too much muchiness. I believe it can be more meaningful for me if I (we) streamline things such that there is less maintenance to leave more room for life, love, meaningful connection with others.
When one gets north of 50 they realize that there is a tipping point to creature comfort. Also we change and grow, the things that served us earlier in life (or that we thought served us) can become either weights, hindrances or even a source of contention.
That is not to say things are inherently bad, it’s more of a diagnostic of are these things serving me today or am I serving them? Life grows. We don’t use our shoes from grade 2. To keep them around means maintenance, it requires storage space and by extension mental space.
Not just stuff but habits, rituals, anything that occupies our time or space that we have become the slave of it instead of it benefiting us, our family or our community for the greatest good. TV or streaming time for example.
Earlier in life I think we take our people connections for granted. When life gets in the throws of things and we don’t see people as much or in the context that we would like to, then we realize how precious those connections really are, especially to our spirit and our soul.
People are ideally eternal. They were designed originally to be eternal. Their spirit is, and that is the hope that all would have Eternal life through Jesus. Things on the other hand at some point even in hundreds of years eventually end up in the garbage dump and start reverting back to dust.
If I can come to a better realization that richness of life is found in divine connections with God and by extension people, the temporal (Paul’s word in Romans) will fade. There will be no particular “need” for the majority of things that I used to think enriched my life.
Morning Writing
Wed April 16 2025
Sylvia Fox Bevan
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