Backpack

It’s probably time to check your backpack and see what’s in it, what you’ve been carrying around all this time. We all carry around a backpack full of stones. Sometimes it’s light enough that we barely know it’s there. But sometimes it just wears us out and slows us down.

Some stones get put in during our childhoods. Some stones we put in ourselves. Some stones are big, and some stones are small. Some stones we cherish because they build character. Some stones we carry in our own small martyrdoms. Sometimes we can’t tell the difference.

It’s the nature of life to keep adding stones, but it’s the nature of spirit to want to fly.  It’s probably time to check your backpack and see what’s in it, what you’ve been carrying around all this time. Take a stone and talk with a friend about it. Take a stone and throw it into the pond and watch it sink. Take a stone and another and build a little shrine. Do whatever you have to get your backpack in order and move on in life with lightness in your step.