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Making Space in Your Life for the Right Person
Are you willing to adjust? To devote time to love?
Make room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and he will find his way there. — Marianne Williamson
When you think about finding love, do you ever think about what love will find when it gets to you?
Will it find a welcoming space in your life to settle in, or will it find barriers and complications? This blog will explore the ways we can sweep aside the clutter that keeps love from getting close.
Diane was a mature, confident woman with a career she loved and an apartment with a great view of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. She reached out to me to figure out why all the men who seemed so promising never stuck around. It seemed mysterious to me, too. Diane was really great! Smart, funny, creative…. But then one day as we met on Skype she moved from the kitchen to the bedroom with her laptop to look for a book she was telling me about. That’s when I saw it. The lack of room — every inch was stolen by clutter. The stacks of books and the baskets of laundry and even a wall of cardboard boxes along one wall in the hallway. How to tell her? Finally, I just said, “Diane. There is no room for a man…
