Make Room for God: Clearing Out the Clutter

If you feel lost in our cultural wilderness, in clutter, collecting, consuming, working, worrying and waiting for something better, I wrote this book for you. I have been lost, too. God has shown me a way out. This book is a bit of bright orange paint pointing to the path toward home. Let's walk it together. —From the Introduction

Susan Rowland shares with us her time- and experienced-tested methods that will help us simplify and unclutter our lives, and most importantly, our spirits. She tackles everything from how to let go of the extra stuff we just can't seem to live without to the feelings of discontent, disconnect, anger, jealousy, abandonment and bitterness that seem to equally possess us.

In five comprehensive sections—Self-Care Without Clutter, An Environment Without Clutter, Productivity Without Clutter, A Spirit Without Clutter and A God Without Clutter—Rowland takes us on her own journey of self-discovery and self-simplifying. She reveals how she de-toxed from the societal pressure to do constantly and to have insatiably, and most importantly, how, in the process of letting go of so much "clutter," she became stronger, healthier and more spiritually cleansed—with plenty of room for God.

SUSAN K. ROWLAND received her B.A. in pastoral ministry from Walsh University, North Canton, Ohio. She was a reporter and feature writer for The Catholic Exponent, the diocesan newspaper for the Youngstown, Ohio, diocese. She is a freelance writer, speaker and adult catechist in Mesa, Arizona, and the proud mother of three sons—Anthony, Matthew and Michael. Make Room for God earned a second place Catholic Book Award for first-time author of a book from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.