Goodbye

As I watched the last vehicle leave the farm, the last family members hit the road for a long journey home yesterday. It was a difficult goodbye. If I could keep all of my children geographically close all of the time, I would, but that is not the life I encouraged them to build. I wanted them to grow beyond what I can imagine and offer them—and they are. 

Life is about goodbyes. Goodbye to friends and family after a gathering; goodbye to loved ones when their time on this Earth is finished; and goodbye to what is holding us back from doing and being what we want to do, what we need to do, who we want to be. Goodbye can be cathartic and freeing, therapeutic—let it go. (Philippians 4:13)

I took a few moments this morning to throw away some junk from the vanity cabinet drawers. Detritus that accumulated because it was just easier to leave it than toss it—so it seemed. There’s more that needs to be discarded, but already it’s easier to see what’s there. 

That’s also life. When we have clutter, physical and emotional, we feel overwhelmed by the world and can’t find our path because it’s obscured by all of the junk. It can be an overwhelming and daunting task to begin anything, cleaning a drawer, a room, your house, changing your life, starting a new project. Just do one thing each day towards your goal. It doesn’t have to be a huge undertaking or it can be, whatever you feel comfortable doing—it’s all about you.