...at least for me it is. as a former high school english teacher, i must tell you that i have moved 2 different times and taught at at least that many different schools, each time lugging with me those things from my classroom. years of materials, boxes and boxes full of paper and ideas that i accumulated or developed, as well as a bunch of other stuff nearly forgotten about.
well, i've finally done it... i have begun purging those things from my garage. i filled up an entire recycle bin for trash pick-up a week from today. i am a bit sad at all my work thrown away, but at the same time i feel completely liberated and on to something i desire a whole lot more than that "stuff". we are wishing to convert our garage into a room for practical use, so the excavation of clutter and unused unimportance has begun.
i have been hanging onto these things for when and if i decide to go back to teaching, but, you know, i don't think i ever will. it was good for a time. it fulfilled a need in me to do something with my life, i guess. but i believe God has brought me to a realization that there is more... bigger and better in store for my energies. teaching was just a part of the continued journey i am on now. it was filled with joys and sorrows, and i look back upon certain memories with fondness, others with regret, and still others with disdain. i am so pleased to have met and interacted with all that i did. if any of you who had me as a teacher or knew me as a colleague are reading this now, each one has made my life full or more rich... thank you for your fingerprint.
in case you are reading this and have things you're hanging onto for that "sometime in the future" that may never come, live richly and be free of the burden! i know i certainly was loaded down by it all. and the bright side? i found some "treasure" buried deep in those boxes... photos of life lived long ago and the memories that go with them. they have made me who i am today.
so i am off now, my mind a bit freer.
here's to decluttering more tomorrow--
heidi
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thanks deena! i'm hoping that this blogging stuff will help keep others in tune with where i/we are in life. :) thanks for the encouragement!
heidi
p.s.-- some of those old photos were of some really great times with you and brian! [BIG smile]
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