Freedom Attracts
When you are interiorly free you call others to freedom,
whether you know it or not.
Freedom attracts wherever it appears.
A free man or a free woman
creates a space where others feel safe and want to dwell.
Our world is so full of conditions, demands, requirements, and obligations
that we often wonder what is expected of us.
But when we meet a truly free person, there are no expectations, only an invitation
to reach into ourselves and discover there our own freedom.
Where true inner freedom is, there is God.
And where God is, there we want to be.
Growing Into Our True Freedom
True freedom is the freedom of the children of God.
To reach that freedom requires a lifelong discipline
since so much in our world militates against it.
The political, economic, social, and even religious powers
surrounding us all want to keep us in bondage
so that we will obey their commands and be dependent on their rewards.
But the spiritual truth that leads to freedom
is the truth that we belong not to the world but to God,
whose beloved children we are.
By living lives in which we keep returning to that truth
in word and deed,
we will gradually grow into our true freedom.
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