Leave Room: Ancient Chinese Wisdom for Humility, Growth, and Knowing When Enough Is Enough

By Howard Jarvis

Your cup is full. That is the problem.

You are not failing at life. You are full of it-full of hurry, opinions, striving, and the
quiet exhaustion of never having enough room. The ancient Chinese proverb at the heart of
this book is blunt: fullness invites loss; humility receives benefit.

In Leave Room, Howard Jarvis walks the old proverb through the deeper Christian story-from
the cup that will not stop pouring, to the inn with no room, to the empty hands of prayer,
to the empty tomb. The result is not another self-improvement plan but a gentle invitation to
be emptied of self and filled with God.

Inside you will find:
- Why a full life cannot receive-and what emptiness is actually for
- The disciplines of not-knowing, open-handed prayer, and repentance as homecoming
- How the gospel turns "empty" from a threat into a promise
- One concrete, doable-this-week practice in every chapter

If you are tired of being impressive and ready to be filled, this book was written for you.
Leave room.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ66G86V
• ISBN13: 9798172305658
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"