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With Wings to Fly!

The LORD is the Spirit, and where the LORD’s Spirit is, there is freedom. All of us are looking with unveiled faces at the glory of the LORD as if we were looking in a mirror. We are being transformed into that same image from one degree of glory to the next degree of glory. This comes from the LORD, who is the Spirit.

—2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Some of us came into this world and we hit the ground running. We had a lot of life to live and only a short timeframe to get things done, and we weren’t going to let any grass grow under our feet. We were free spirits right from the starting gate.

Others of us weren’t really ready to fly from the outset. We needed a little more time to be nurtured and loved, protected in the nest with the rest of our family before we had to be literally pushed out. At that point, we hoped we had developed wings and that they actually would work so we could fly.

God is working in each of us to bring us a certain kind of freedom, the kind that will allow us to one day be reflections of his Spirit, images of him in the things we do and the ways we act. He gives us that freedom whenever we’re ready to embrace it.

Freely project the Spirit of grace and love.

Our truth comes from the Spirit of grace and love. Our freedom is reflected in all we do to project his image onto the world. We are free to share his truth with others and to shine a light on his amazing Spirit. With his arms, he will bear us up and give us wings to fly.

IN THE QUIET OF THE DAY

Lord, I know that with you, I am free to be myself and to be all that you would have me be in this life. Amen.