What Fills Up the Spaces?

The people and things in our environment are not so poignant as the energy they carry. The quality with which they seem able to change and alter our lives. We have all experienced this before... the loss or addition of someone near to us in life or possessions removed from or added to a house that seem to, themselves alone, remove or provide a certain quality inside of ourselves. What is this energy that seems to come in the form of substance. Is it the things themselves that fill us up or is it the space between the things that really changes our lives? When a person comes into a room and completely alters the energy, is it them or is it the space between you and them? When we lose material possessions do we grieve for the possessions or the way we interacted with those possessions?

I believe we have become a consumerist society in the search for the fullness between things. We fill up the potential with combinations of things that make up the quality of our lives. The mistake is we can get so caught up in the things that we don't realize it's not about the things at all. It is about the space between the things, the spaces fill us up, but what fills up the spaces? We fill up the spaces. Our love, our beliefs, our stories. We are constantly creating the quality of our lives. It starts with ourselves. 

I believe true love can fill an empty house, true peace can come in the midst of war and true happiness will shine through in the greatest devastation. True friends stick by you through good and bad and true faith believes when all seems lost. 

The truth is not in the people or the things, the truth is inside of ourselves and fills the space between the people and things and that space creates the quality of our life.