A Facebook post from a new friend, Andrew Burling … “The key to being free is the revelation that you already are. You are free to choose your thoughts, you are free to choose your words and you are free to choose your actions. Those three things create your life.”
Well said and so true. And we know this, of course … but isn’t it also true that too often our own freedom is undermined?
Sometimes it’s our own doing … we think the wrong thing or doubt our abilities, we speak without thinking or even lash out in ways that will come back to haunt us, we take what we know is not the best action because it’s easier or safer. more expedient. We make the choices that constrain us rather than the choices that can open our lives to greater success. We turn away from opportunity, in fear. It happens more often than we’d like to admit.
Sometimes the limitations to our freedom come from outside of us. Situations may put us in difficult spots where we don’t feel we can express ourselves … in our thoughts, words or actions … in the way we’d normally choose. We may feel helpless, stuck. We may even feel like we’re getting run over, as if we don’t exist.
But obviously we do exist, and it is freeing to realize … truly realize, deeply realize … that WE are in control. We are in fact already free to focus or refocus our lives, to create a more positive vibe in our minds and through our words. And by far most importantly, we can make new choices and act on them. Every day.
Isn’t that the only way to create the lives we seek? God gives us each the mind that can choose the right thoughts, the voice that can choose the best words, the will to choose the precise actions that will help us build the lives we long for. That is true grace, a blessing there for the taking. With God’s help, I pray we each internalize that freedom, breathe it in and own it … it is the best and only way to create the life you want, and the life you deserve.
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