And I also have so many buttons I’ve collected, some in a small sewing kit, others in a jar on my bedroom dresser. They are all extra’s that came with clothing.

Agree with this statement and a lesson I need to learn: “Sometimes saying no to an old assignment means we’re available to say yes to a new one.”

I’ll miss you at Do Not Depart. You were the one that alerted me to that site with your writing. But I understand the need to move on, to be available for where God is leading.

Two times in our lives, we felt led to lay aside some things we were involved in before we knew a change in my husband’s job and a move was coming. A missionary friend of mine calls that God stirring the nest. 🙂

I have not had to make any changes since the pandemic, but I am contemplating and praying about how to make time to do some things I believe God has placed on my heart. We’ll see how it goes.

And what I found fascinating about that darling video of a darling little girl, is that she, herself, prioritized. She abandoned a bevy of bracelets for her very favorite, for just one special one. So in her innocence, she was applying the principle that her granna was explaining to her readers. Less really is more. But more than that, it is choosing the right things to let go (bittersweet as that is, especially when the Lord had originally called you to that writing opp in the first place), and also choosing the right things on which to focus and for which to make room. It’s all in the choice–God’s for us–and the willingness to say yes to it (and, as appropriate, a humble no thank you).
Love
Lynn
Oh, and I? You asked your readers. So, yes, I have had to do that, too, and it is NOT easy, especially when God bids me let go something that I love, or some ministry that was fruit-bearing. Sometimes it makes utterly, earthly no sense to me, and it is a costly relinquishment. But in the end, if I am to truly follow Jesus, it is far more costly to disobey.