I find myself freed from something I created on my own. It was the entrapment from what I thought was school and the push towards that goal. When I finished my last class, with just my masters essay to go, I went to work the next day. And that's when it washed over me that I could do anything I wanted; start another band; join a gym; begin recreational reading; become an avid bowler. So many choices that are now available to me all of a sudden! As quickly as that wave of emotion came, what followed was a profound question. What stopped me from doing all that before? I know that I may have literally been busy, but the more I realized what was hitting me I understood that it wasn't that all those ambitious things were not available to me to do, but that instead it was that I prevented them. And more so, I was emotionally stopped. It was the feeling of burden, and for no more reason then that I was in a self imposed ...
Observing God Within The Mundane