Book Review-Traveling Light by Max Lucado

Today is a very brief book review of TRAVELING LIGHT by Max Lucado.

Max Lucado has been a cherished author of mine for several years as I read a few of his children’s books to my children as they were growing up. 

I came across Traveling Light and purchased it solely because of who wrote it. What was inside its covers did not disappoint.

Traveling Light is a book about the baggage we carry with us daily. Worry, anxiety, guilt and shame just to name a few. Max uses Psalms 23, through stories, to help us let go of the baggage that is literally weighing us down.

In the first part of his book, he has a different 23rd Psalm that some of us might be living. It goes like this:

“I am my own shepherd. I am always in need.

I stumble from mall to mall and shrink to shrink, seeking relief but never finding it.

I creep through the valley of the shadow of death and fall apart.

I fear everything from pesticides to power lines, and I’m starting to act like my mother.

I go down to the weekly staff meeting and am surrounded by enemies. I go home, and even my goldfish scowls at me.

I anoint my headache with extra-strength Tylenol.

My Jack Daniel’s runneth over, (or in my case, my sugar addiction).

Surely misery and misfortune will follow me, and I will live in self-doubt for the rest of my lonely life.”

If any part of this rendition of the 23rd Psalm hits home, this is a wonderful book for you. In 18 beautiful chapters He walks you through the 23rd Psalm in the Bible and helps with refocusing on how to keep putting that baggage down over and over again, until you don’t need to pick it up anymore.

That is when Traveling Light is now a part of you!