- Pack it up. Yes you. The one with all the "what if's" going through your head. You've been carrying it around for too long. Leave all the doubt, self-blame, guilt and shame. You don't need it anymore where you're going. Move on.
- Leave the past behind you and embrace your future. It awaits you.
- We all struggle with the choices we make. We want others to make it for us. We forget our goals, dreams, aspirations. They go by the wayside for one small four letter word that prevents most of us from attempting our dreams. Fear.
- I allow negativity to weigh me down. Constant battle every day. Not from others, but within myself. It's an awful habit that is hard to break. As smoking is to our lungs, self-doubt and low self-worth hurts the heart, hurts our minds, and keeps us bound and broken. Broken to realize the power we have in our own lives to make things happen. Our dreams can come true. If you realize God has given you the power to make them happen.
- Well today I'm moving on. I'm packing up all the positive things in my life. The things that won't be coming in that suitcase is uncertainty. Negativity. Painful memories, you can come along, if only you realize in my suitcase I carry the lessons I learned from each one of you, and the power to change them in the future.
- Where am I going, you ask? I'm taking the right path. Full of right choices. Those choices are always the hardest to make. But sooner or later you know you've got to be in charge of your own vacation itinerary. I know where I wanna go.
- As I pack this suitcase I realize I just need the necessities.
- First and foremost, Faith. My faith sees me through my greatest bumps in the road. He is my GPS. Without Him I wouldn't know where to go.
- Self-confidence. He made you to be your unique self. Don't doubt. Trust that He doesn't make mistakes and He created you with love in His own perfect hands. Embrace YOU.
- Honesty. You were born with it. Use it. We don't need to go through life being anything but our honest selves. Your true self, deep down at your core is a road map to what make you YOU. Be your true honest self in your actions, in your words. But always remember your actions speak louder than words.
- Hope. Everyone needs hope for tomorrow. But we also need hope from our past. Hope that all the good and bad has somehow blended together and taught us lessons for the future. Everyone should have hope.
- Forgiveness. We all have to carry forgiveness in our hearts. If you don't then you live a very lonely life. Everyone makes mistakes.
- The ability to change. I once read, if there were no changes in life there would be no butterflies. Everyone has the ability to change. Some want to stay worms and some make the changes to turn into that beautiful butterfly. Life is all about change.
- Love. Love for God. Love for my family, love for my friends. I have a lot to give. My motto is what you give, you get back. I'll continue to give all I have.
- Dear God,
- I know you have a great plan for me. I know I don't always trust in that, please forgive me. Only you know the story you have written for me. I will try to trust in that more. Please give me the strength to make the right changes in my life. I want to live the life you have intended for me. I know the story you have written for me is so much bigger than anything I could dream of. Thank you for this trip called life.
- Amen.
