Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

As long as you’re a spectator in your life, you’re not a worshiper of God. You can be an obedient spectator, but not a worshiping spectator.

You don’t have to go. You can stay home. It’s up to you. But if you let fear stop you from doing what you really want to do, you’ll regret that forever.

it is about uncovering the driving forces behind my decisions.

The lighter I pack, the more I

If you want to experience a place, you have to experience its people, more than its landmarks, or restaurants, or ice cream, or history. You have to come into contact with the stories of the people who live there. In fact, the places from our trip with the greatest memories were the places where we spent the most amount of time getting to know the

we love to celebrate stories of people who take a leap, who abandon everything to sacrifice for others. Maybe this is what makes a story worth living, worth repeating. Maybe it’s what makes a chance worth taking, even when it’s dangerous—the opportunity to live a life that extends beyond us, that saves the lives of others. Sometimes our legacies fo

When you’re doing what you were made to do, hurting people will come to you. That’s what Jesus did. He just acted like Himself, and weeks after the start of His ministry, hurting people began to flock to Him.

What do we do when it doesn’t work out? What do we do when we don’t get what we thought we wanted? We can either choose to feel like it’s the end of the world, or we can choose to decide it’s the beginning.

How much more in tune would we be with the twists and turns of our journey, and prepared to handle them with conviction and grace, if we didn’t think the “rules” were protecting us? We would have to pay close attention, exercise discernment, ask people to help. We’d have to let go of some rules that everyone else was following, and follow some that