Baggage Can't Claim You

We just completed our 10th Annual Dad-Daughters Adventure Trip. This year we visited the Grand Canyon for a few days of hiking, laughing, debating (they’re like that), and eating (the real reason we travel together).When we reached our destination, the first order of business was to hurry and claim our baggage.

Anxiously, we waited, worked our way through the crowd then walked off under the renewed weight of our stuff.

As we lugged around our burden, all I could think about was how light and refreshed we felt after having initially checked that same baggage.

Then, my thoughts turned. What about our life baggage? Admit it. We all have it.

If we only had the clarity to identify it. The courage to hand it over. The discipline to let it drift away, down the conveyer belt.

Feel lighter?

Instead we reclaim it over and over again at each new destination we reach.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Life baggage can’t claim you if you don’t go looking for it.

What baggage have you been lugging around for too long?

It may be time to check it in and walk away. Forever.