Unloading

So I follow the People For Others blog from Loyola Press and for those who don’t, this week Paul Campbell SJ is featuring images of his workspace.  It is fun to see and to get an inside view of the Loyola Press world.  Today, we were invited to share our workspace.  Well, mine is/was outrageous…papers from everything, books everywhere, bills needing to be paid and lovely pictures drawn by my kids. My poor husband, driven to the dining room table because I have taken his desk and now I just don’t like it.  (Wives!!)  Because of this, I have been planning on redoing our office and giving us both a reasonable workspace.  Thanks to Paul’s post today was the day.  Now that my youngest is ready to depart with things, the girls and I have spent the summer cleaning out “stuff,”  I even took the “Caution Kids Zone” sign down.  🙁  However, I am really enjoying this new phase and I am enjoying ridding my space of things.  While going through papers I found this poem and decided I wanted to share it with you. It sums up my goal very well and it just makes me happy to read.   Enjoy!

The first thing we have to do
is to notice
that we’ve loaded down this camel
with so much baggage
we’ll never get through the desert alive.
Something has to go.

Then we can begin to dump
the thousand things
we’ve brought along
until even the camel has to go
and we’re walking barefoot
on the desert sand.

There’s no telling what will happen then.
But I’ve heard that someone,
walking in this way,
has seen a burning bush.

— Francis Dorff, O. Praem.