Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks for joining me today.

So what am I thinking about today? Well, I'm thinking about writing a podcast about how

we have so much more room in our souls than we realize. That means I'm thinking about

a quote from Richard Sibbs, an influential Puritan preacher from the 17th century. And of

course, he's the one who got me thinking about this. So here's the quote, we never come

to be full. The soul has a wondrous capacity being a spiritual essence. It is capable of

more grace and comfort than we can have in this world. Well, do you wish you had more

grace and comfort? I do. And the shortage is not due to the size of our souls. We are indeed

capable of far more. So what's the hindrance? What keeps us from gathering in more grace

and more comfort? And as Sibbs points out, we can never truly be at full capacity in this

life. But surely we can still keep on increasing. And that's for sure true. But what's the hindrance?

What keeps us back? I think a major culprit is the number of pet worries that we give space.

Sometimes we are oblivious to them. And we don't even notice because we've made room for

them. And they've taken up permanent residents. If you're single, maybe it's a worry that

you won't get married. If you're newly married, maybe it's a pet worry that you won't have

kids. At any age, we can make room for our pet worries. Health worries for our kids,

our husbands, for ourselves, financial worries. And so far, the point is, let's evict those

pet worries. They are getting in the way. They're taking up way too much room in our hearts and

our souls. And instead, we should be filling our souls with more trust in God. Just think of that.

When we lived in an itty-bitty house and our kids were in elementary school,

I had a recurring dream that I found a door in the house that I had never noticed before.

And sometimes it led upstairs to a giant room. And sometimes it led to an empty wing.

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