Over the years of writing this blog I have addressed where my book ends, Finding Freedom and eventually finding within me the assurance that I can now Live in Freedom. When I was young and living through the years of abuse, I lived in a world that only existed in my mind. This world was one where I had only good and I was doing only good. As I thought I’d stepped into this world of fantasy by entering college and was no longer home. I had thought the bondage of abuse would end. Little did I understand how the abuse would only change from physical, sexual and verbal abuse to the haunting abuse of Satan’s deceptions in my mind and emotions. It turned into beliefs. After graduation from college and marrying, I thought this would be the start of the freedom I sought to find, only to realize there was now even more bondage. Finally, I concluded God just didn’t love me as scripture said when this marriage ended. I had tried so hard and for what?

The amazing lessons God has taught me from my twenties to now my seventies have been incredible. Living in freedom has always been accessible. I somehow needed to learn that hiding in secret was not the answer. It fed the belief I was of no value to God. Living in freedom doesn’t remove temptations, the thoughts of shame and so much more. It gives me permission to talk about it and help others to do the same. No one needs to live in hiding as I did. Helping others step out and begin to see that the sun is shining outside the closet of shame/guilt/fear/anxiety…. is a beautiful part of living in freedom.

The Shining Son one finds outside of this prison (closet) is not the sun that scorches you and burns your skin. It is the Son who heals and restores you to Himself. I speak all of this first hand for this Son, Jesus Christ, IS the GREAT HEALER if we will only take the step of telling.