1 post tagged “margins”
I remember in elementary school trying always to fit one more word on a line. As a result, I'd always run out of room on the side of the paper and have to squeeze my letters really close together. The squished letters did have at least this virtue: they fit on one line.
But margins have a purpose on a piece of paper. They keep things readable, legible. They keep things tidy.
Of course, life is never tidy, but nonetheless it too has margins. The inviolable space on either side of the page which keeps the story of your life legible. These margins are sabbaths, and the sacred space and time of such sabbaths are important for a legible life.
"Burning out" is another way of describing people whose stories are written on pages without margins.
It is hard to stay in the lines if you're accustomed, as I was, to blowing right by them and pretending they don't exist. But the margins of life are much more than "empty space." They are actually active periods of re-creation and re-newal. Times when we are refreshed and reinvigorated for our vocations, our callings.
God hashelped me with my margins of late; I'd encourage you to seek the same kind of help for your own life composition.
