A best practice on solo travel with Jen Hatmaker

About this sermon

Greetings from Me Camp Aspen, the prettiest, dreamiest place. I want to share with you today one of my best practices on traveling solo because it’s something that I’m constantly correcting in my own brain. Sometimes it can feel like we have to do things a certain way when we travel. That the only way is go-go-go from morning to night. Be at everything, do everything, don’t miss a single thing... the seize-the-day, carpe-diem mentality. But I find this doesn’t serve me. It actually makes me feel quite anxious. I don’t want to carpe diem the whole time. I want my carpe diem to be optional. And this is okay. It’s good, actually. Whatever I want to do is what I should do, and this is the only “should” that I apply. This morning, I was in my room and what I wanted to do was be in my comfy clothes and watch a show and do a little bit of work and have a quiet morning. The little voice in my head was like you “should” be outside and doing something else. But being in my room was what felt great to me. If I want to seize the day, I will. If I don’t, I won’t. So what I want you to know is that you’re not ever wasting your trip or your experience. You do what you want to do. Sometimes it’s the gas pedal, sometimes it’s the brake. It’s your trip. It’s your deal. You do you. Also, yes, I’m wearing a Texas Longhorns shirt out in these Aspen streets — and I know it’s obnoxious and I’m unable to correct it.