Separate From Your Baggage & Keep Quiet

I recently spoke from this subject Separate From Your Stuff and Keep Quiet. The message was stirred by some reading and reflecting about a King named Saul. He did not want to become king and when it was time to swear him in, he was hiding in the baggage, because his tribe had to travel a fair distance for the great day. At one point in my engineering career I traveled heavily. I can remember being gone 5 to 6 days per week and being a weekend dad just to keep from losing the house. During that time I learned how to do two things well. Separate from My Baggage and you guessed it, "Keep Quiet."
Baggage
When you travel a lot, baggage begins to become a nuisance, because in the airport you are not allowed to leave your bags unattended. After a while, even a 10lb laptop starts to feel like a 100 lb weight hanging from your shoulders. When you have bags, your hands are not free to DO anything.

Are Your Hands Free?

Are Your Hands Free?
I learned how to release those bags onto the belt and then patiently wait for them to come off the belt. I also learned to be quiet or you are sure to be a suspect for security checkpoints and other airport nonsense. Well, every year we have the opportunity to separate from our baggage of items we carried through the previous year. When we carry anger, unforgiveness, bad habits, and even memories of people we lost; they will eventually weigh us down.
The Cabin
 When I was taking short trips and needed few clothes then I would check my bags at plane side, but even on those trips I had to separate from my stuff because there is only so much room in the cabin. Your mind is like the cabin of a plane and it was never intended to carry all of the things we attempt to carry there. Some argue that we don't use the majority of our brain's computing power, however much of that is by design. Every cabin has free space, just like pages have margins. When your brain, life, or heart is full of stuff that you refuse to separate from then you get weighted down and your plane will not be cleared to fly.
Fly High
Any day you are not flying high, you can guarantee there is some unnecessary or unwanted baggage in your cabin. Is your cabin clear for takeoff? Shh… Don't Answer that! Every time you bring that stuff up, it weighs you down, so don't even speak of it. Low flying planes usually do so because they have many stops, but a plane flying high is not planning to stop any time soon.
Talk about where your plain is getting ready to go next. Attitude determines Altitude, but baggage is the limiting factor. The more you talk about your destination, the less relevant your point of departure becomes, even when you have a connecting flight. Some flight connections are there to settle us, humble us, or refocus us. Your current location has nothing to do with your Final Destination and everything to do with your Preparation!