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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: Escape (01/02/06)
Embraced...

When Freedom has surrounded you with her wings and breathed in you seeds of truth, seeds of hope, seeds of peace, love, joy, and seeds of forgiveness, rejoice! Look above you and look ahead of you, for the sun has risen, indeed. Like the horizon, your future has been blessed with an array of color and beauty. Your heart has just begun to feel what words can not express.

Take your first moment of Freedom, the very first, to be thankful, for grace has carried you through where Freedom awaited your arrival. Embrace all you've learned and how much you may have grown, not because of what was, but because of all that is, as a result of what was, for there lies the foundation of who you will become... There is great potential for you to live a thriving life filled with promise and abundance.


Freedom ...

Freedom is not about the escape from what kept you in bondage. Freedom is about the sacrifice made for you and the love behind the sacrifice so that you may escape to and bond with Freedom and with all the Eternal outpourings of blessings awaiting you.

True Freedom is pure. Freedom is a blessing so that we can live freely and can choose what is morally right and just. Freedom is to be free from bondage of mind, body, soul, and abuse from self and from others. Freedom is a release of the past and a rebirth of self.

Living in Freedom does not guarantee a life less troubles, trials, adversities, or challenges, but it does guarantee a way through them. Should you stumble, listen for the swooshing of Freedom's wings, for Freedom is always just a breath away ready to carry you. Be assured that forgiveness, grace, and mercy are feathers upon the mighty wings of Freedom.


Helping Others to Escape...

When Freedom begins to overflow from inside you, listen for Freedom's whispers: Carry your freedom to another person's life of bondage.

And should you come across someone who has yet to live within the blessings of Freedom, breathe in his poverty, his sorrow, his pain, his suffering, and his brokenness. Walk with him through it all. Help him to overcome yet to not be consumed by the adversities, the hardships, and the trials. Hold him inside with oneness in heartbeat with compassion, caring, and love. Hold him up and surround him in prayer. Show him not by word but by example what a true blessing, what a special gift is Freedom. Live that testimony. Be that testimony. Freedom is the first seed to wholeness and the first step of an amazing journey toward Eternity. Freedom awaits all. Freedom belongs to all.

Then let Freedom spread her wings through you to him, sowing those very same seeds that was planted in you.

Breathe out the message of God's love, mercy, and saving grace until the wings of Freedom surrounds him and frees him from his bondage should he choose to escape from those chains to the sweet wings of Freedom.


First Freedom, Freedom Reborn, Freedom Yet to Come...

God created the Earth, the sky, the Heavens, all the creatures above and below, and man and woman along with Freedom. In the very beginning, Freedom was so very pure, but because of sin, its light faded. Yet, Freedom was already destined to be reborn with a new calling the very moment when Jesus was resurrected- a calling to become the first ray of light beyond the doorway of escape from bondage.

The Spirit of the untainted Freedom on the other side of original sin rejoices when the New-Born Freedom finally bonds with those who search for it, those who find it, and those who embrace it. There are glimmers of light shining through the clouds of today, for a magnificent Freedom never yet experienced or even imagined by anyone is on its way... on its way with the glorious second coming of Christ.

Three beautiful Spirits of Freedom... One set of wings. One choice. Escape.

Freedom is just part of the essence of God Himself. God is with you in your every breath. Take yet another breath, and share it...
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Sandra Petersen
01/10/06
This was almost exquisitely poetic in its wording! Your article got a little wordy in places, but the beauty was retained throughout.
You gave an excellent definition of freedom without becoming pedantic.
I liked paragraphs 2, 3, 5, and 7. Your conclusion was well-stated...I could just breathe it in!