From
Galatians 2:1-21
“Freedom!”
H,
That may be what it truly
means to be free. It seems to me that the first prison is the self. If we can
let go of that almighty albatross and any reaction to it, outside love, then we
are set for the holies. Yet, even that thought is found in a bottle. It is
trying to work out aspects of character when we must see this as a whole quest.
If we try to pick and choose the changes that make us more like Christ then we
will soon miss the whole point.
This is not about being a
little better. This is not a character advance or a moral spurt of growth. This
is a total rebirth. It is the way we are to be made more eternal than temporal,
more spirit than body and more full than empty. It is not necessary that you
know all of you is up for transformation when you start to make this journey. In
fact, because you are constantly choosing the light or the dark it may seem
that the illusion is true and all you need is small shifts here and there to
make you fine. Soon you will have to face the facts: it is not that you are not
good enough it is that good is not enough. There is a new way of thinking and
being that makes good only a flourish of Holy. It is not even new; it is just
new to you. This way has no counterpart or lesser degree. It is full on and
lifelong and it will take everything but only to replace it with everything
that really counts.
I had that feeling when I really
learnt to kneel that there would be a new voice in everything I do. If I listen
to it then I see freedom made real and peace, joy, love and all that really
shape my life and set my path. If I do not then I keep trying to put a new
thing on an old foundation, wine skins and wine, and thus the bondage of earth
bound man continues. We will never be the person or people our heart and hearts
so desperately want unless we learn to be free. It is only in that lightness
away from the weights we carry that we think we need to survive, it is only
when we have put down the great burden of friendship with the world system, to
carry up that cross of old that is true liberty that we can begin to really
soar.
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