When we feel dead inside, it is often because there are old ideas we no longer believe in or haven’t challenged in far too long, old feelings we really don’t feel anymore but cling to desperately, afraid of what might happen if we admit we don’t feel them. Without our realizing it, these things have suffocated us, crowding the life out of our soul. Sometimes they can be reinvigorated, refreshed, or reimagined. But sometimes they must be removed. We must simply let go of them. The altar must be emptied so that the light may keep burning.
