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Friday Favorites...The Red Suitcase

12/2/2016

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“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” 
― Terry Pratchett
Happy Friday beautiful hearts!  Today I want to share with you how much I love my tattered up red suitcase.  It is one of my favorite possessions, because if it could talk, it would be able to recount my wonder and joy for traveling to new places.  You might be thinking, lady it's just a suitcase, but as I look at it, it's so much more.  It's an anthology of saying YES to life.  Yes to being uncomfortable.  Yes to the unknown.  Yes to growing my soul.  Yes to letting more love in.  Yes to my fears.  Yes to living.  It has contained within it some of my grandest moments, as well as some of my most difficult.  As I get ready to retire this beauty, I find myself getting rather sentimental as I think of our travels together.  This red suitcase has held a space for adventure, love, sorrow, and so many amazing memories.  Its crazy now as I look at it and reflect on all of our curious adventuring, I find my eyes filling with tears of gratitude.  

I'm so grateful for all of the chances I've had to explore, grow, love, and learn.  Each adventure I've been on brought out different parts of myself.  Trepidation, excitement, nervousness, joy...pure bliss and gratitude, and of course shoes to match accordingly.  Some travels required textbooks and binders full of all the new information I was to learn.  Other travels held lots of sun dresses and bathings suits so that I could restore by the sea.   Some trips required suits for funerals, while others required dresses for weddings.  This tiny red compartment from TJ Max is full of the stories of my life.  

I think about an upcoming training I will be attending and as I look for a new suitcase at TJ Max, I find myself contemplating this next chapter of my life as a rite of passage.  A dear friend of mine recently told me, "Sarah, you must know who you are leaving so that you can know who you are becoming."  Lorraine's words come easily to me as I think of this suitcase.  I hold the anticipation of becoming in my heart, the way a mother might hold her babe.   

I eagerly let go of old fears to make room in my new suitcase for fresh adventures.  Invitations to live more presently.  To breath deeper.  To climb higher.  To love more fiercely.   To sit in the rapture of silence.  To relish alone time and to celebrate the company of the dear hearts in my life.  I am leaving behind the borders a girl who was riddled with fears and who struggled to express herself for fear of rocking the boat.  I am saying thank you to this girl for showing up in my life because I am ready for both of us to begin the next adventure of our lives.  I smile as I think of my new suitcase, so many spaces to tuck adventure and life into!   Travel well my friends....

May You Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude, 
Sarah   


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