The great author Madeleine L'Engle wrote, "I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . .The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lost myself, but I know from long experience that this is so." (From The Irrational Season, 1977.)
Jesus said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?" (Luke9:22-24, KJV).
Death to self. Losing our lives. Letting go of self. We can't know true peace or experience true freedom until we get rid of the heaviest burden of all--the self.
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