Burden, Blessing Or Bye

Earlier this week, I packed up and put away the Christmas decorations.  I went through the boxes, throwing away the ornaments that were cracked, broken, or just didn't look right anymore/  That made more room in the storage container, thank goodness, because we picked up a few new things this year.

On Sunday, December 28, I talked about what we are carrying with us into the new year--possessions, but also (and even especially) memories, beliefs, hurts and other "stuff" that may no longer serve us.  In the wonderful book "Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Good Life," Richard Leider and David Shapiro state, "Repacking, then, is the ongoing activity of reevaluation and reinvention.  Rearranging our priorities.  Reframing our vision of the good life.  And recovering a new sense of being alive.  It is a process we must go through over and over in order to keep growing, and changing, in order to keep from falling into patterns that not only don't get us where we are going, but which actually hold us back from where we want to be."

What have you carried with you into the new year that you are ready to toss?  What situations in your life could you change your story about, moving them from burden to blessing?