Freedom...

There was something impactful about this picture when I first encountered it the other day. I wonder what runs through your mind? The initial thought for me was, that the mold I desire to break free from is that of the world. You might know the one I am talking about, whereby people, advertising, images that are displayed, suggest, even compel me, to conform to a particular image, standard or code.

Interestingly, following seeing this image I was reminded of this reality by Richard Rohr -  

"We think of freedom as not having to do what we don’t want to do, but divine freedom is the capacity to be fully who we already are, to develop our inherent and true nature, as much as possible—really wanting to do what we know we have to do. Only God can create that freedom inside of us. Love can only proceed from such inner freedom. A mustard seed, yeast, and light—that all develop from within—are some of Jesus’ central metaphors for this freedom-loving Reign of God." (Adapted from Jesus' Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount, p. 14)

True freedom is when we become or find the person that God has initiated, created us to be. When we become unshackled, untangled from what others might expect of us, or even what we have become conditioned to think we ought to be.

This might not always seem easy when we begin to contemplate it, or dream after it, well not initially, for so often we are still thinking  in terms of how am 'I' going to accomplish this, how can 'I' achieve this. It is not until we actually surrender self or even the notion of 'I' have to be in control, and hand the reigns over to God, that I begin to realise, you know what? this is possible. 

How bizarre that we let go and we find what we have been looking, even searching for - freedom. Why are we surprised? After all, it is what God desires for us.

I trust that you will know this truth more and more in these days. 

Bless ya real good!