Nothing is more inspiring that to see courage and hope in the eyes of a new client. It takes courage to admit to yourself that you can’t do it alone. It takes even more courage to reach out to someone and ask for help.

I see this as one of the most courageous things that a person can do, to trust another human being to help pull them up out of the mire and free them.

In reality, Christ is the one who has done all that is necessary to free every person who will ever live on Earth. The work has already been done. The debt has already been paid. Asking is all that is required to be granted freedom.

We unwittingly give our freedom away when we go through life with no ambition or vision of living in a higher way. We go to work every day, punching a time clock, feeling unfulfilled, but powerless to change our circumstances. Truly, we do have choice!

Richard  Lovelace wrote a poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison adjoining Westminster Abbey to encourage the Clergy Act 1640 to be annulled. The first two lines of the final stanza of the poem are often quoted:

…Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage:
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty. 

Viktor Frankl is another who spoke of liberty while in a Jewish Concentration Camp in Germany:

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

We, in American, have the inalienable right, even the responsibility to freedom. If we look around, there are people everywhere who wish for someone else to make their choice for them. And, thankfully, there are people all around who stand for the Cause of Freedom.

Find a cause, or start one. For if we stand not for the cause of freedom, we bind ourselves to the prison of doubt.

Today I Give Myself Permission to Raise the Standard of Freedom

• I acknowledge my debts and I own my part
• I owe my life and my freedom to Christ
• I am in debt to God for every breath He freely gives me
• In Jesus Christ, I am free
• I claim my freedom, I receive His grace and it is enough
• I borrow light from Christ and reflect it to others
• I am God’s servant, He is my master.
• I am free to choose, and I choose obedience and eternal life
• I stand for freedom and my life reflects what I stand for
• I live in the land of prosperity and I claim my freedom to be prosperous

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