Travel Light and Let Go of Your Burdens

In a previous post, I have shared some things we need to bring along in our journey to make it a more meaningful and fruitful one.

However, we should also be reminded to keep things light and not bring along so many things that couldn’t help us, or that merely hold us back from fully enjoying our journey. What are these things? There are so many burdens we keep, but I will share with you three things that are easy to remember:

1. Anger

Anger weighs us down so much that unless we could let it go, we couldn’t go so far in our journey. At first, we may feel that it is pushing us intensely to do something, but later, we’d realize that it is really holding us back from doing the things we truly desire to do. Let go of anger. Forgive, if not for the person who hurt you, for your own peace and healing.

2. Guilt

When you are not able to let go of guilt, you will only sabotage your own success. You will hold yourself back from your own happiness. It is not that we shouldn’t do anything to make up for our mistakes. In fact, that’s what we should do! We should do all we can to ask forgiveness, to make up for our sins and to correct them. But then there will come a time when we too should forgive ourselves as God has forgiven us.

3. Greed

Another thing that hinders us from traveling lightly is greed. When we are so concerned with the material things that we are bound by them instead of being helped by such wealth, we become victims of our own greed. Greed is trying to get more than what you need. Greed is carrying more than what you can carry. Greed steals the time you should have spent with the people you love, because your time just couldn’t be enough to amass and hoard all the money you could get.

Travel lightly. Carry only what you need.

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matt. 11:29-30

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