FILL YOUR SPACE

 

"MYOB"... before it was a bookkeeping app, it was simply short for "Mind Your Own Business".  

It was something mean other kids said to me if I wanted to be in on what was going on!  

In a time when we literally have the world in the palm of our hands, it can be hard to stay focused on our own business.  Somehow it doesn't seem as critical, exciting or fulfilling as our own business.

Or, we find constant background anxiety hanging over us because there is so much going on and we feel overwhelmed by all the need, suffering and just plain evil.

Do you know that YOUR space matters?  It may not seem significant enough, but it really is.  I love the words of Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12, where he tells us to live quiet lives, minding our own business!

"But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;  that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing."

• Your home matters.
• Your job matters.
• Your family matters.
• Your health matters.
• Your friends' matter
• You matter.

I recently removed all the news apps off my phone because I constantly sensed that background anxiety.  It was invading my sleep and my capacity to mind my own business properly.  It's no use if we are so distracted by what is going on in someone else's world if we are not PRESENT in our own.  

Do a little stocktake.  Are you fully present in your world, or are you constantly off somewhere else?

Do the people in your world know that you are there for them, or do they feel like a side hustle while you do the 'important stuff' elsewhere?

These questions can confront us, but they can also release us from pressure we were never meant to carry.

Imagine if all of us attended to our own business, fully present and fully engaged. The ripple effect that would have on our communities.

Perhaps minding our own business is part of the solution to the world's problems after all.

Fill your space.... because it matters, and as you fill it beautifully as only you can, your space and your influence will grow.

With love,

Lynda x