freed

The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.

Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God__ capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.

One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, __ill I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the ability to be unleashed?_ And in retrospect, maybe it__ not the question that__ terrifying. Maybe what__ terrifying is the answer.

Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.

Sometimes the very things that we__e expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let__ die so that we can live.

One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don__ have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents - and myself - I glimpsed our whole family life as if it were freed of that clock time which spaces us apart so inhibitingly, divides young and old, keeps our living through the same experiences at separate distances. It is our inward journey that leads us through time - forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

Once you finally cease all judgements you will also be freed from the need to forgive.

You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?" "Not at all," Cindy Lou answers. "Daddy freed him." Ron's jaw almost hits the floor. His wine glass does.