Maybe its just me, but the combination of pandemic and Michigan winter definitely has me forgetting this truth some days.
But here’s the thing: the wide open spaces that I sometimes dream about, the traveling, the friends, the getting out of my own house, these are not the only ones that God has in mind for me. There are also wide open spaces in my own soul yet to be explored.
Right now there are sacrifices to be made in the physical world we live in that may confine us, but as for me, I’m going to hold on to this quote and go deeper with the Lord to discover new wide open spaces without ever leaving my house.
Is my love fenced in?
Am I letting Love give my life infinite dimensions? Sometimes.
But other times I definitely let myself lean into those feelings of resenting all the things I can’t do that I want to.
I don’t have all the answers for how to do this better, but what I’m focusing on is being fully present right where I am and being grateful for the blessings in front of me.
True Freedom?
“To achieve true interior freedom we must train ourselves to accept, peacefully and willingly, plenty of things that seem to contradict our freedom. This means consenting to our personal limitations, our weaknesses, our powerlessness, this or that situation that life imposes on us, and so on.”
-Fr. Jacques Phillipe
I’ve been contemplating freedom a great deal lately (in case you couldn’t already tell). There are a lot of seeming constraints in life right now. Sometimes it’s easy for me to fall into the trap of thinking that freedom means that I can do what I want.
But more than ever, I find that I am being called to witness to the greater Truth- that true freedom is the ability to choose what is right and good.