Muses

Today I Celebrate Freedom.

Celebrating Freedom.

That is what today is all about.

Freedom from censorship. Freedom to worship the God we choose.

Freedom to make mistakes. For better or worse.

But it’s hard to live in freedom if we remain captive to fear.

Liberty from worries of rejection, security, loss.

I’d give it to myself, my children, heck I’d give it to everyone.

I’d infuse the blonde boy in white trunks with a thin blue plaid. He circled a group of children at the pool but turned away before jumping in their midst.

What stopped him from plopping in the middle of them and saying “hi?”

For so long, worries stopped me from taking a less certain path. So many trails to adventure I desperately wanted to explore but never traveled after choosing to remain in the shelter of the known.

My son has loved to fish since he could stand on two legs and hold a pole.

As a young man, he paddles off into the water often disappearing from view down the beach.

 

Makes me crazy.

Not so much on a calm night as this.

But without warning, life turns turbulent, churning, out-of-control.

 I let him go.

Only demanding he wear a life-vest.

Letting going of my biggest fear giving my children freedom to plow through their own.

Not easy.

But breaking free never is.

What is your greatest fear?

Naming it is the first step to independence.

 

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