There have been moments in the past few years when I felt inspired to write a last section of my book, The Journey From Error to Heir. If I ever do this I know its title would be “Living in Freedom”. This would follow, “Finding Freedom”. I use to think that God would wipe away every memory of my childhood abuse and all that it did to my belief system. I wouldn’t have any fears, temptations, etc., regarding any of it. I would be “normal” like everyone else. I write this because I’ve found that living in freedom doesn’t have anything at all like I had thought.

Living in freedom has some amazing realities that I am now understanding and deeply appreciating. These realities are ones like: remembering one’s past but having little if any bondage attached to it. I can share it and use it for others without the crippling anxiety I use to know all too well. I can have a temptation without it making me think I’m now just like dad or just like my brother. Temptations are something we all experience just because we are flesh. They don’t make us just like anyone else unless we are to act on the tempation like someone else did. Probably the most wonderful reality of all for me is that I know I am loved by God. I never have to earn His Love, He already lavishes me in it. All that I get to do for Him is out of sheer humility and thankfulness and no longer hoping it’s good enough to earn God’s Love.

What a wonderful Savior and Lord our God is for giving us His One and only Son–Jesus and sharing His Precious Holy Spirit to live within us!