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<\/a>Does your life feel so full of ‘things that need to be done’ that there is just no time or space to do them all \u2013 let alone find a little time for yourself and for the things that are less pressing but often more valuable?<\/strong><\/p>\n My life certainly does.<\/p>\n Last week I took part in an urban prayer walk, organised by St. Paul’s Learning and led by Brian Draper.<\/strong><\/p>\n At the start of the walk Brian led us to a group of London Plane trees, whose trunks and arching branches he likened to the columns and vaulted ceilings of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the destination for our walk.<\/p>\n Brian encouraged us to look up into the canopy \u2013 but to look not at the branches and twigs and leaves, but for\u00a0the spaces between them<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n And this I did \u2013\u00a0gazing up at the gaps where the sky could be seen \u2026<\/p>\n \u2026<\/p>\n Yet after gazing upwards for just a short while it was no longer\u00a0these little gaps that I was aware of.<\/p>\n It was the much greater\u00a0space enclosed and held by the branches.<\/strong><\/p>\n Not small two-dimensional areas of sky but large three-dimensional volumes of space\u00a0\u2013 wide and long and high and deep.<\/p>\n Space that was there all along\u00a0\u2013 ‘hidden’ and unnoticed between the overlapping layers that had made the tree seem so crowded.<\/p>\n There was so much more space in that tree than appeared at first glance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n And as with the tree, so with my life.<\/p>\n There\u00a0is so much more space in my life than appears at first glance.<\/strong><\/p>\n Space within the busyness, enclosed by the busyness, held by the busyness \u2026<\/p>\n Space before me, space behind me, space beneath me, space above me \u2026<\/p>\n Space that is wide and long and high and deep \u2026<\/p>\n If only I would stop focusing on all the things that seem to crowd my life \u2026<\/p>\n Stop searching, even, for gaps between all these things that I ‘have’ to do \u2026<\/p>\n And simply stop \u2026 and become aware \u2026 of all the space \u2026 that is there.<\/strong><\/p>\n St. Paul’s Learning<\/a> Does your life feel so full of ‘things that need to be done’ that there is just no time or space to do them all \u2013 let alone find a little time for yourself and for the things that are less pressing but often more valuable? My life certainly does. Last week I took part… Continue reading Seeing Space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2k38J-fr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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