I have been on many trips and journeys and I do enjoy traveling. But I hate the hustle of packing and unpacking. My most enjoyable trips have been those when I traveled light.
And so it is in life. The hustle of packing and unpacking often bogs me down on my life journey. I pack my life with good intentions and some regrets and some what-might-have-beens. I unpack festering hurts that I refuse to let go off and unfulfilled dreams that refuse to die.
To travel light on life’s journey, love is really all I need. I cannot eat love but loving keeps me full and satisfied. Love keeps me warm on cold and lonely nights. Love lightens my burden like no other. And love lights my way specially when I am at a loss.
“Lord, I will carry no purse, no bag, no sandals but your love on my life journey. Be with me until my journey is done.”
Jesus said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves.
Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road.
Whatever house you enter, first say, “Peace to this house!”
Luke 10:1-9