Do You Feel Like A Prisoner With No Escape?

In GALATIANS 5:1 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by the yoke of slavery.” I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been freed from the bondage of my past and the yolk of oppression. Only to pick it back up time and again and lay the full weight of past pains, sins, abuses and rejection across my shoulders in a futile effort to carry it alone. Believing in with self-deception that I can somehow make right what is wrong, or even better fix that which I have not broken! Especially as  apparent we want to hang on to that which we need to let go of, “our children!” We cannot always if ever bring the fallout of their lives or our relationships with them full circle. I have struggled and fought against the tide of letting go, releasing, in short loosening my grip on that which I do not own, possess or have control over. Therefore keeping me in chains and in prison, a prison of my own making and slavery by choice. Having an analytical triple AAA personality has definitely been a big hindrance for me. I have grasped and held on so tight, especially with my children that I have made it feel almost like life or death! Why do we want to stay in the imaginary chains of our own making? Is it because suffering although quite painful, sometimes even to the point of physical illness, deceives us into believing that the devil we know is better than the one(s) we don’t? Or, is it that we stay captive to the past and others through false sense of guilt and responsibility? My answer to you is, “Smell The Roses and Blow Out The Candles!” My freedom just like yours is as close as a choice away. Whom the father has set free is free indeed.