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, your whole person.

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

That top line is your max capacity.

Were 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, 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 short on compassion and in one word you are unloving.

And the bottom line there, that limit is your idol.

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