Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

If we weren’t willing to let go of things we needed, we never would have gone on a trip. But if people weren’t willing to see our need and meet it, we never would have made it back home.

That’s what happens when we get too attached to rules. We feel gypped when we don’t get what we were hoping for.

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.

The lighter I pack, the more I

This is another thing that makes letting go difficult. The things in our life—people, places, experiences, dreams—all rest on each other, like blocks in a building. Some are more important than others, some are less so. Some of them are integral. Some are the foundation. But move enough blocks, even the secondary ones, and everything starts to crum

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” VICTOR E. FRANKL

I want to be the kind of writer who is awake to the realities of heaven, but engaged in the realities of this world.

realize He knows what I need even more than I do, and He is more generous than I ever imagined. Sometimes He even meets needs I didn’t know I had.

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.