Seeking Simplicity

Hello everyone.

I’m sharing with you today some thoughts and observations from my personal journal.

As I sit down to write-coffee in hand, I’m feeling quite reflective and thoughtful. In fact, there’s almost an urgency to set a tone for things going forward.

Recently, my family and I moved house and the entire experience has been revealing in many ways. These are the beautiful hydrangeas my husband planted in our front yard and I’ve been holding onto this picture for many years as a memory in time.

Time…what an illusive thing.

As I packed up what seemed to be endless boxes for the move, I was suddenly aware of everything that’s been collected over time. Every item represented a memory, a reason and a season. All this stuff-these reminders of a life that used to be, went off to donation because the truth was simply that these things had outworn their use.

Then there’s the whole not wanting to drag the past, so to speak, into our new home. The entire experience caused me to pause and reflect as everything I touched represented something that needed a reason to prove it’s now existence. Where to put it and why. Or better yet, let it go.

Later days into the move it was clear that I had even more belongings to part with.

While I’m not a minimalist by any means, this experience has taught me the importance of making room in my life for the new to enter. Sometimes were holding on and we don’t even know it.

Yet, the universe has it’s mysterious ways of working that out for us.

In time…