Lost my margin

My apologies to those of you who might have been checking in here the last week or so - hoping for a fresh word of encouragement.  My hope when I started this blog was to write once or twice a week to give you encouragement on your journey - and I know we all need encouragement on a regular basis.  But it's been almost two weeks since I hit the keyboard, and it's not really a mystery what happened to me - I lost my margin.

Margin is the blank space in and around the words on this page.  Or it's the breathing space in my life that surrounds all the activity and doing.  Margin is what keeps this page or my life from being frenetic.  My writing flows out of my margin, because having space in my life is what allows me time for reflection.  And reflection is what gives me something to write about.  Lately I haven't had much margin - so I haven't had much to write.

Usually lack of margin is a result of my choices.  Sometimes it comes from circumstances beyond my control.  Lately it's been some of both.  But God - who knew what my month was going to be like long before it ever happened - provided a time away for Marty and I - and we are basking in breathing space as I write : ).

I am truly grateful for this time of restoration, but I know if I am to maintain margin in my life when the next page turns, that I will have to make some firm commitments.  One of them will be to be more consistent with God's call on my life to communicate encouragement - and to make space for the reflection time out of which that flows.  You can check in soon to see how I'm doing : )!