Why do I feel like a chia pet...

As you get older you start to see growth.

Like a plant we grow. As spring time comes, I get the itch to plant things and grow things within my little apartment world. This weekend my growth from the past was brought up (not by choice) and again I was thrown back into a world that I don't know or recognize at all. It was a sign of how much the Lord has grown in me a desire to know Him more. It was a sign of maturity and of humility, to be shown what you once were really brings a sickness to my stomach. Yet my flesh still has a bit of desire to be "free". In the world's eyes, followers of Jesus are "caged into religion"

Oh, that they and we would know the freedom Christ brings.

Then I started thinking what does freedom look like to those of us who are following Jesus.

The freedom to know that there is grace and love.

The freedom to know there is a new day everyday for us.

The freedom that we are able to talk to the creator of the universe everyday.

I feel as though I am just at the tip of the iceberg of the freedom and joy that the Lord wants for his children. The reminder of my past ended up becoming a thought process of love and joy for where the Lord has yet to take me.