Tuesdays with Dawn

I am having a good day! It is sunny outside, we won our soccer game yesterday (3-1), and despite the fact that I had to stand on the bus on my way to work at 7am this morning, I am doing great!

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Sometimes I wish that we could take other people's pain away - with a simple snap of our fingers or a single word said with authority. However, we cannot. We do not have the authority or ability to make every sad feeling in the world transform into overwhelming joy. We cannot make our friends stop hurting over loss and feelings of abandonment. We are stuck in our humanness so utterly and completely.

But we can love like we've never loved before. We can shower the world with uplifting words of encouragement. We can extend acts of grace and kindness. In all these things, we can help others remember and FEEL that they are LOVED... and not just by us... but by many others and by the Lord. 

Above all things, our love is what sets us apart from other living things. We have hearts of empathy and forgiveness. Of logic and reason. And an ability to choose love before we choose hate. For we were created in his perfect image, and in doing so, the love within us that only comes from Him - and is of Him - gives way to freedom. Freedom from the lies of this world. Freedom from the bondage of pain and suffering.  Freedom from internal conflict and restraint from being all we were created to be. It reveals truth and extends love. 

Its called Freedom in Christ. 

I am learning that this is the only way I can live - I must choose Freedom - and so, today at least, I do.