"What's your favorite holiday, aside from Easter and Christmas?" That's the question I asked Chad tonight as we were slicing up some peaches to freeze. {Hello, Peach Truck delivery! Yummo!} Ya know what his reply was? "Thanksgiving." Know what my reply was? If you know me well, or you've been following me, you know there's something I'm passionate about. It's in my business name, my team name, it's in my bones......FREEDOM! {Yes, act like I'm in Braveheart here, ok?!} My favorite holiday is the 4th of July! Why? Because of all that it stands for and represents! FREEDOM!
So many thoughts buzzing around my head right now around this topic, I will try to keep on the straight and narrow here, folks! It's not just the red, white and blue, or the stars and stripes I love. {Yes, I'm a fan of those and love decorating with those during this month too!}, but it's about so much more than that to me. It's the meaning behind it. It's what the day means and how it relates to my life.
With us moving back to my "childhood home," well close enough to, I've been thinking a lot about life. Ya know, things I've been through, what God has shown me through it all, what I've learned from it, etc. Even before Jesus set me free, or I knew Him, I loved the 4th of July. The idea of freedom and the HOPE that it gave me of being free one day were always in my heart. Yet, when something is in your heart, but within reach it can be frustrating, can't it? Maybe you can relate? But now that I am free, it means so much more.
It's interesting moving away, learning, growing, getting married, having children, changing, being set free, learning who you are, ya know, big things, then being called back to where it all started for you. Kinda surreal, honestly. But, also very cool to look back at where I was, what God has done in and through me and what He has brought me through to come back here. Wow, I'm totally not the same person I was when I was here. Sure, parts of me are the same, personality maybe some the same, but the inside of me is totally different. I've gone from being an insecure, paranoid girl who was looking to outward things to fulfill and complete my brokenness to a secure, confident woman who knows who she is and WHOSE she is. God has done a mighty work in my life and to Him be the glory. The things He has set me free from, too numerous to list, but some of them include:
* Looking for significance or sense of worth in busy-ness.
* Food/sugar addiction.
* Insecurity
* Lack of confidence
* Fear
* Shame
So, friends, what has He set you free from? Or, what do you need Him to set you free from?
Happy 4th of July friends, celebrate your freedom today and Happy Birthday, America!
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