Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.

This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the

unhurrying with the Rule of Life series. How many of you feel like you have margin in your life?

Margin has been defined as the space between your load and your limits.

How many of you feel like you have space just to breathe in your everyday life?

Let's say there was an app that gave you a digital readout of your soul, meaning this integrating center of your being, your mind, your body,

that part of you that doesn't show up under a microscope, your will, this, your whole person.

How many of you, your digital readout would look something like this your whole person,

digital readout would look something like this.

That top line is your max capacity,

where you literally run out of hours in a day,

or you like work so hard, you come down with a sinus infection

and end up in bed due to exhaustion or you just go postal and start screaming at

your poor mother-in-law at Thanksgiving when she asks you to please pass the salt.

I don't have time for that or whatever.

That next line down is your emotional and spiritual limit.

It's a kind of glass ceiling where if you go over that, you're still

functional, but you no longer have the capacity to live well, at peace and at

ease in your own body with a Jesus kind of relaxation where you work from

rest where you're flexible and open to interruption and you don't take yourself

too seriously but you have the capacity to chuckle at the tragedy of life this side of Eden.

Instead if you go over it you're still functional but you're anxious, you're a little bit mad at the world, you're go over it you're still functional but you're anxious you're a little

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