For year I have kept all of my journals. They have been the home to many healing sessions with Jesus. They have been filled with prayers, notes, thoughts, fears, frustrations, and the list goes on. These pages have tasted tons of tears over the years and have endured every emotion I have experienced. They’ve also captured many celebratory victories and even the challenges I’ve faced.
These pages have been a place of safety for me. Since I was a little girl (as early as 8 years old) I can ALWAYS recall having a journal with me.
But yesterday the Lord instructed me to go through some of them from the last 10 years and throw some of them away.
I knew why.
It was baggage.

Some of my documented hurts held me hostage from further healing.

Though the pages carried the weight, so did my soul at times as I would revisit the pages at times instead of leaving the weight in God’s hands instead.

Some of the words written in some of these prayers had been filled with lamenting, and I carried this weight literally (baggage) for years.

I held on to some of these journals as a part of me.
A part of my story.
A part of my testimony.
A partial picture of Amy.
A distorted view at times through a blurry lens of battlefield wounds.

But then God reminded me that He’s rewriting a lot of it and it’s time to not only turn the page, but throw the whole page away! So that’s what I did. I literally felt a weight lifted as I did that and forgiveness was released in my heart for some of the wounds the words in my prayer journals were about. God is so faithful.

I believe He is ready to rewrite many of our stories. I believe that He is still redeeming all things! I believe that there is something He wants you to throw out too. Search Him out and ask God what “that” weight is and wait for His reply and then go for it by faith and in obedience. I believe more clarity will come through it. He is lifting every burden, bondage, brokenness and baggage. His blood is washing away every battle wound right now. So go ahead and bag up the baggage, toss it and watch God write a whole new book for you. You are greatly loved beloved! Know that. 💛