This morning I couldn’t help but take a minute and enjoy the fact it is morning.  I do love the early start of each and every day.  As I was taking a moment to thank God for mornings I hit upon a reason that hadn’t occurred to me.  Mornings are fresh and sometimes crisp when we get past summer.  What occurred to me was that the freshness of mornings also patterns the freshness God gives us with each new day.  Through Jesus Christ the newness is already given to us.  We never have to earn it we just have to receive it by accepting Christ into our heart and lives.

Yesterday brought together all my kids and grandkids living locally.  It has been over 3 years since this has happened.  During those 3 years much has taken place that God has been working to heal and restore.  I know He isn’t done with His work, but it was so good to have everyone together and enjoying one another.  To hear the laughter of grandkids playing in the pool, chasing one another in the yard, showing empathy when an injury happens makes a grandpa’s heart happy.

Yesterday we celebrated freedom.  Today we live it.  In fact we can’t celebrate something that we haven’t lived.  This is physically true and spiritually true.  As my journey continues each day I am becoming more and more steadfast in wanting to live abundantly free in my spiritual life.  I fought to earn my freedom with God–hoping He’d love me eventually and I’d be good enough for His love.  Finally, little by little, I’ve learned that my efforts were futile.  It was Christ’s efforts on the cross that earned me my spiritual freedom.  I just needed to accept it as such.  I’m sure not done having this awareness permeate all of my living and thinking, but I do know I’m on the right tract now.  My journey now is that of an “heir,”  not from the side of “error”.  I’m on purpose and so are you.  We are free indeed!