You don’t have to go. You can stay home. It’s up to you. But if you let fear stop you from doing what you really want to do, you’ll regret that forever.

You have to leave home to go on a journey, but you can’t leave home without having a home.

Unless I let go of what I was holding, I would never get the answers to my deepest questions: Is God good? Can I trust Him? Will He provide for me? Should I jump into the waterfall?

maybe the healthiest way to form expectations is to expect less in the specific and more in the general. Just expect amazing scenery, without knowing what it will look like it. Don’t try to imagine it, just know it will come. That way, when it comes and it looks different than you expect, you won’t miss it. Expect a town like Deadwood, even if you

The lighter I pack, the more I

“Do what you need to do. I’ll be here when you make it.”

it is about uncovering the driving forces behind my decisions.

This is another thing that makes letting go difficult. The things in our life—people, places, experiences, dreams—all rest on each other, like blocks in a building. Some are more important than others, some are less so. Some of them are integral. Some are the foundation. But move enough blocks, even the secondary ones, and everything starts to crum

If we weren’t willing to let go of things we needed, we never would have gone on a trip. But if people weren’t willing to see our need and meet it, we never would have made it back home.