The Invisible Backpack: A Life of Courage

The Invisible Backpack is a labor of love created from a life-long struggle to come to terms with who the author is andaccept himself as he was meant to be. We are all born withan invisible backpack on our backs. It is where we put all thehurts of life. When we are young and courageously climbingthe stairs of life, it is extremely light, and we really don’tknow it’s there. As we get older, it gets heavier with whateverpain, grief, or trauma we experience. Unfortunately, weresist taking these feelings out of our backpacks and let goof them. Some of us hold onto them so tightly, we forget tomake room for the things that lighten our load...forgiveness,acceptance, tolerance, and love. For if we can put these itemsin our backpacks, it will cancel out all of the negative thingswe’ve been holding onto, and our life journeys will becomemuch lighter. Read more