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.

In its simplest sense, I felt like this is what happens when we let go of things. We step out of our own reality and into God’s. We realize the world is much bigger than we expected and that we are much smaller, and we start to see what a miracle it is that we get to be a part of it. We see that we aren’t as big of a deal as we thought we were.

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.

The lighter I pack, the more I

He was here, He was available, He was pursuing me.

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.

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

“Do what you need to do. I’ll be here when you make it.”

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