We All Need Amazing Space

Space sets us apart and draws us together

There's not much space for this lady to walk in the garden at Evergreen, but she can still look up and around to sense spaciousness.

This time of year shops are crowded, car parks are packed, fridges will be stuffed to overflowing, and our houses will see more relatives than they have all year.

You may get the sense that you are running out of space.

But that's one thing we will never run out of.

A view of a blue and cloudy sky easily gives us a sense of spaciousness.

If you start to feel overwhelmed in the next couple of weeks, just go outside, look around, and look up.

Doing this may calm you.

When you look at trees, notice the spaces between the branches.

When you look at a flower, sense the space holding each petal.

When you see a dog running at the park, watch space accommodate his body, keep him in one piece, make allowances for his movement.

Amazing Space

Space is an amazing, silent quality.

The highly creative American architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said:

Space is the breath of art.

Imagine, for a moment, this world without the powerful presence of space.

Everything would become a conglomerate of stuff, with nothing distinguishable.

Sky, ocean, earth and fire would merge into one.

We couldn't marvel at them, move between them, soar, romp, race and holler in their presence.

Without space there would be no music or art.

Music needs space between the sounds.

Art uses space around things.

Dance, film and theatre manipulate and define space.

And without space there would be no you and me. We'd be jammed together, indistinguishable from each other. We would be one "thing".

Now, we are One, really, in the deepest All That Is. But while we’re here, dwelling in the world of form, space separates us.

Ironically, the space that separates us also causes us to be attracted to each other. There is a desire to reach across to touch one another.

And that’s a good thing.

Whatever else we celebrate during the upcoming festive season, let's also celebrate - and enjoy - the space that separates and unites us all.

With love, Marlane