A light backpack for loving

Life quickly fills with things: plans, purchases, screens, comparisons, grudges, fears, and invented needs. Some weigh more than you realize. As on a pilgrimage, not everything you can carry helps you walk. There are burdens that take up space and leave you less free to love, serve, and listen to God. Lightening the load is not despising the good. It is making room for what is important. Sometimes freedom begins by removing one thing that already rules too much.