The Vastness Within You
You are designed for vastness.
Your heart, your spirit, your very being is meant to stretch far beyond what you can measure or imagine.
There is a capacity within you that mirrors the infinite sky, the endless desert, the boundless love that calls all life into being. Your life is not confined by what you see, feel, or even understand in this moment. You carry within you an interior spaciousness that is both deeply personal and universally connected.
To live from this place is to stop shrinking from challenge or turning away from mystery. It is to meet the wildness and stillness of life with an open stance. The desert teaches us that life flourishes where we once thought nothing could survive. It teaches us that humility, hospitality, and healing grow best not in cluttered noise, but in sacred emptiness.
This moment invites you to reclaim your original, unbounded nature.
Not by doing more, but by becoming more open—wide enough to hold beauty and sorrow, light and shadow, growth and quiet waiting.
When you recognize the inner expanse of your own being, you will understand you are not missing anything. You are returning to the truth that has always lived inside you: the truth that your soul is an endless wellspring of life.
Live wide open.
Live spaciously.
Let the interior castle of your spirit echo with light.
There are times when the landscape of our lives feels barren.
We search and search, and all we see is dry ground stretching endlessly around us. Doubt whispers that nothing will grow here, that we are lost or left behind in some forgotten corner of life.
Yet even in these dry seasons, there is something powerful unfolding. The seeming emptiness is not a void, but a clearing. A clearing where something wiser, deeper, and more sustainable can take root. The desert is not deserted; it is alive with hidden springs.
Our struggles invite us to move beyond surface solutions and into a more meaningful way of living. The desert teaches us that fullness of life is not about accumulation but about opening ourselves to all of life—its resilience, its humility, its fierce beauty.
When we embrace these seasons, we discover that the hardships have carved more space within us to hold compassion, strength, and sacred peace. We are being made spacious so that we might welcome others with tenderness, live more simply, and move more gently upon the earth.
You are not abandoned.
You are being led into an ancient way of seeing: a way that finds joy in simplicity, wisdom in stillness, and power in humility.
Walk forward with courage.
The desert will bloom around you.
Heart of the Message: The desert, both external and internal, reveals the spaciousness and resilience of the soul and invites a way of life rooted in humility, hospitality, and inner transformation. Though the desert may seem barren, it mirrors the soul’s infinite capacity for growth, connection, and peacemaking through spaciousness, humility, and deep hospitality.
The soul is not empty,
it is a vast and living land,
where hidden springs wait patiently
beneath a surface of silence.
What you fear is barren
is already flowering,
in the unseen deep places
where your true life has always been rooted.
Open your heart wide as the desert wind,
and you will find
you have always belonged to the fullness of life.
Really good post thank you Robert. I have learnt and am learning - very slowly - that I can physically experience a deeper space in me - a quiet, watching presence that is not pulled into the noise of life. It doesn’t judge or rush. It waits with God-like patience in the in-between liminal spaces.
But it is very ordinary - the essence of my normal life, the essence of love. Nothing spiritual or unattainable or something I have to gain or get or achieve. A presence that has to be uncovered.. Rumi said, "The task is not to seek for love. The task is to remove the barriers that you have built against it."
it may just be the life that was in Jesus - "In Him was life and the life was the light of men.. "