Free At Last!!!

Oh yeah!! Uh-huh!! Right on!! Here we go!! All Moms are rejoicing today...we are FREE...it's the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! Woop Woop Now, I'm not a stay at home Mom but let me tell you that when Summer is in full swing my desk phone rings non-stop. My kids are calling me it seems like every thirty seconds to ask me something, fuss about this, tell me what so and so just said and blah blah blah. So....to pull out of the driveway this morning knowing that it was THE DAY I just couldn't help but drive to work with a smile on my face!

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For those of you whose children are already grown and you just can't remember that feeling or maybe there are a few of you who have small children and the school thing hasn't happened yet and then if you fall in the category that you don't have any children of your own let me give you an analogy just so it all makes sense...you know when your husband shaves and he leaves those little pesky whiskers EVERYWHERE?!?!? In the sink, on the counter top, on the floor, on the faucet...the first day of school is that feeling that you would get IF your husband actually cleaned that mess up all by himself!!!

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You do realize that we have that same freedom through Christ don't you? Jesus can take your guilt, your shame, your frustration, your unforgiveness, your hatred, your pain and just throw it as far as the east is from the west. "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Galations 5:1 (NIV).

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So many times we get burdened down with life, heartache, struggles, trial, tribulations, gossip, wrong decisions, mistakes, lies, tempations...need I go on? But, the thing we must remember, girls, and I mean we MUST remember this...we are FREE!

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I personally struggle with letting go of things some times, most of the time, ALL THE TIME and a wonderful friend of mine put it to me in the most precious way yesterday. She said, "Take a glass bowl or cup and fill it with water. As you are filling it with the water you say outloud what that water represents. It may be heartache, unforgiveness, guilt, whatever it is within you that is causing you to not have the right relationship with Christ but you say it outloud so that YOU know what that water represents. Then, go outside, kneel down in your driveway or on your sidewalk and tell God that you are giving him this THING that is holding you down. Dedicate it before the Lord. Stand up and say in the name of Jesus I'm letting it go and drop the glass bowl/cup and watch the liquid go everywhere. In doing that you just dropped it all at the feet of Jesus. No matter how hard you try you can't scoop that water back up and the same goes for whatever it was that water symbolized. Now, it is done...it is finished...just as it was finished that day on the cross!"

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If you are struggling with freedom today can I challenge you to fill up a bowl/cup. Don't you think it is about time that we live like we are FREE?!?!?!