Finding Freedom

No one on the outside can open the door to release you from inner prison.  The key is actually on the inside

                                                                        John O’Donohue,  Eternal Echoes, p. 108

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Ah

the things we do to ourselves

the nasty, toxic things we pick up and carry with us

these are the things that enslave us

and keep us from

being free

divine children

so much guilt

over things done, or not done

so much shame

we become damaged

in the way we see the world

in the way we see ourselves

we become trapped by our own perceptions

and come to see the world through

our failure and fear

and it shrinks

we create an inner prison

and there we sit

with no way out

So we look for a rescuer,

for someone, a great love perhaps

or something, great wealth, power, success

to unlock the door to our misery

and free us

but nothing frees us

for freedom

true freedom

can only come from within

from

Spirit

from

Divine Presence

from a self restored,

re-born

from connecting with Presence

at the core of who we are

and thus seeing the world

through the eyes of God

and dancing

in the vast greatness

of divine abundance

and

grace