90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge ~ Day 70 {restoration}

I am restoring my life with my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge. Restoration is transformative. This restoration has freed my soul and opened me to the new. Read my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Manifesto!!

A Recovering Magpie’s Restoration

We should all know the transformative powers of restoration. Sometimes I remember. This little project of my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge has taught me to slow down and enjoy the restorative transformation as it is happening.

I came into this process as a novice of letting go. I really had not one ounce of experience at doing this. Sure, I had lost things and had things removed from my life, but I never literally made a conscious choice to let go of stuff I no longer needed. I held on as tightly as I could out of fear of feeling imagined pain. That self-actuated pain never really materialized…yet it held me hostage for 40+ years.

{Coming clean} I sometimes prevent good from flowing into my life!

My Summer Simplifying Challenge

As I am learning to let go, I am making more conscious decisions, which have brought a restoration season into my life. I now pay attention to what surrounds me. I only want in my life the things that bring joy to me. I want to loosen the grip I have on so many things…yes things. This is where the transformation leaves off as the restoration begins.

The days of the Summer Simplifying Challenge have sped by.  Writing about it on a daily basis has helped restore my soul. For it is in the writing about the experience that I found answers and the strength to carry out the task. If I had not challenged myself to write about the process every day, I might have let it go when it got hard or sad or painful. There would not have been restoration or transformation and I would have found it necessary to pack and haul everything with me when I moved again. And that would have made me feel like a failure. There would be no transformation and certainly no restoration in that.

So I continue to find the strength to work each day of my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge. I look at each baby step as restorative. Each decision fulfilling. Each parting necessary for my self-growth! {insert BIG smile}

 Today’s Accomplishments

1. One box, sorted and things placed into the ‘outta here’ boxes!
2. The house is clean and orderly.

Today’s Setbacks

1. None.

If you are inspired to join me…grab the button below: