Unpacking your Life

When you have to pack everything up and move, and then unpack everything again, it's a great time to start over. But, you don't have to pick up and move to do that. And although it is important to keep memories of past events... it's also important to clear out your life every once in a while. 

We are constantly being bombarded from ads to let us know that we are missing something in our life... and guess what! If we buy the product they are telling us about, life will be fabulous! But, are we really? 

We can't watch a television show, listen to the radio, even walk down the street, without being reminded of all the things that "we are missing out on." 

Sometimes it's better to get rid of things... If we keep grabbing at things all the time, where is it all going to go? Eventually we will be so caught up in the things around us, we will forget about the people around us. 

There's a song called More Beautiful You by Jonny Diaz. The chorus goes like this:

"There could never be a more beautiful youDon't buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump throughYou were made to fill a purpose that only you could doSo there could never be a more beautiful you"

When I heard this song, I thought it was a great reminder of who we are really called to be. We were made for a purpose... made to be beautiful. We don't need everything we see in the commercials to make ourselves better... We need to start from the inside. Being beautiful starts with what people see when they watch you. It could be a simple smile across the aisle at a grocery store to a long conversation with someone you haven't seen in a while. Stuff does not fulfill a person. People make things in our life worth having.