Baggage

Baggages...

We all have them. Either the baggages from the consequences of something we have done in the past or from something someone has done to us in the past.

In our daily routine, it is easy to hide our baggages. In fact, we purposely suppresse these baggages to keep the pain from resurfacing and from hurting ourselves or others again.

As we journey through life we get hurt, we get wounded, and we end up carrying these debts the people owe us and is like we carry them everywhere we go. And after awhile these bags get heavy, don't they? And they can end up making the journey exhausting.
~Rob Bell, 007 Luggage

And as God weaves two lives together in a relationship, these baggages are exposed. Wounds are reopened. Pain resurfaces. Because of this, there is an even greater tendency to hold on tightly to these baggages and to hide them. However, if it is God's hands that weaves this two lives together, these pains and wounds will be covered by the love of the other and by the love of God.

And that the beauty of a transparent relationship - the baggages no longer makes the journey exhausting, but enjoyable.