1). Work space

2). Shopping spaces

3). Home space

4). Church space

5). Counseling spaces   

6). Health spaces   

These are just some of the major spaces I could think of that I typically navigate regularly. All of these spaces serve one purpose or another for me. Some serve a more intimate need and others just meet a need that we all have. I want to share with you what I’m pondering and learning about spaces. 

            I want to share with you some questions to help you as you’re entering different spaces in your own lives. Before I do that, I want to share a little about one of the most intimate spaces that I’ve been entering lately outside of the spiritual space. It is the counseling space. Counseling spaces are important to our healing. We will enter those spaces feeling so many different things at one time. We don’t always leave those spaces feeling good inside but that does not mean it’s not beneficial for our healing.  Healing hurts inside.  I don’t care what anyone tries to tell you, it is hard and it is work, painful soul-wrenching work. It’s the kind of work that takes you painfully backwards to walk you forward into freedom. I call my counseling space sacred, holy, and safe. It is the other space outside of home that I can unarm and move towards healing. Now on to the questions.

      Some of the questions I ask myself about spaces are:

1). Does this space serve me well, spiritually and mentally?

2). Is this space safe for me, not just physically but emotionally as well?

3). How do I feel at the thought of entering this space?

4). Is this space causing me high levels of stress each time I go?

5). When I leave that space, I’m I better for having gone?

6). I’m I thriving in that space or just surviving?

      I know that the spaces we have the opportunity to experience can affect our lives in so many different ways. We oftentimes don’t take the time to explore how different spaces make us feel. We know that we have different feelings about the spaces we encounter but do we take time to feel what we feel? Do we take time to pray and ask Jesus if this space is safe and healthy for us? I am praying that this post helps to awaken something in you as well about the spaces you have been entering. Maybe that feeling you feel when you leave spaces should be explored rather than stuffed. Maybe there is something deeper to that uncomfortable feeling, you feel in that space. Don’t be afraid to choose yourself. If it means staying out of spaces that make you feel unsafe(not just physical) or that space that makes you feel unseen, choose you, you are more than worthy of being chosen. I’m so grateful you are here. I pray you will know the importance of the spaces you enter. God bless.