Packing

Sitting here in my room packing all the things that I will need over the next twelve weeks is an interesting duty. How do you pick pieces of your life to take with you? How do you decide which pictures or parts of memories will be needed over the next few months? How do you decide what should go and what should stay? This is hard but I guess its just a form of what we do in our spiritual lives everyday. Someone says something mean to us, we react poorly to a family member, we smile when we think of the ones we love, and the joy that we get from knowing a Savior walks with us. What do we take with us on the road of life and what do we leave behind? What memories of joy and sorrow do we choose to hold on to so that we can be better, and what joys and sorrows make us bitter? How do we choose what to pack in our hearts? I am not writing this because I have an answer, a bible verse or a clever quote by a spiritual mentor in the Faith. I am simply asking because I think we should remember that as we hold onto things that harm us, we carry them into the NEW parts of life, and if we let them go, our baggage seems a bit lighter. So as I sit here and choose to figure out which parts of my life go with me and which parts stay, I will also remember which parts of my attitude, will stay here and which parts will go. Thank you Lord for NEW seasons and the possibility of change. What will you take with you?

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