Thursday I was going out of town so I asked my husband to bring down the littlest roller bag because I was ‘traveling light’! As I packed for my trip, I noodled on what ‘traveling light’ through life means. For many years I had to travel for business. Sometimes weekly and at times I was on a plane every day. It was crazy the things I had to pack to ensure I was ‘comfortable’ in all those strange hotel rooms. But it wasn’t just the heavy stuff in my suitcase that used to weigh me down.
Walking through life lightly has been the topic of many great works of literature and a few memorable sermons. There’s free of disease, free of extra weight, and free of heavy burdens both spiritual and physical. We are all looking to lighten our load in one way or another. My change in lifestyle has afforded me a lighter load in many areas. The unseen ones just as wonderful as the physical.
Everyone knows that ominous ‘gut feeling’ we get when something is wrong. Scientists have proved that there is a strong communication link between our gut and our mind confirming what we intuitively knew already. So, it won’t surprise you that your gut can also communicate a sense of wellbeing, energy and joy as well as foreboding. I’ve identified a direct correlation to my sense of wellbeing since we began eating clean. When your gut is settled it’s just easier to settle your mind.
As I sit in the airport coming home from visiting an old friend, I am thankful that I’m traveling light and I’m going home with a lighter heart. What a joy to have a dear friend help you sift through your burdens and throw out the unnecessary debris that so often loads us down. Traveling light is about not needing a reflux pillow or those extra coverups I always hoped hid my fat. But it’s also about a lighter heart and sense of wellbeing and purpose that puts a lift in your step.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?” (Matthew 6:25 NIV)
“Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” (Bethenny Frankel – Naturally Thin)
“You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” (Stephen Covey – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)
Yours for a Joyful Journey,
Joyice