Freedom
Jesus said, “if you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31, 32
I’ve experience spiritual freedom several times:
- Leaving home for college
- Leaving the Air Force to start a career as a social worker
- Leaving social work to go into computer science
- Finding CDM, my spiritual home, and starting my journey to finding the person I am today.
When I was a child, I had a close personal relationship with God. As I grew up, I gradually lost touch with God. The most exciting part of finding CDM was that I was given permission and encouragement in establishing my relationship and communication with God.
As I have strengthen that relationship the last few years, I have found that spiritual freedom has always been within each of us.
Spiritual freedom is faith: the certainty that we have chosen our own spiritual path and have the freedom to do exactly what we want.
I have also found that we can know what we want, as Spirit, and we can create what we want.
I have also found that we can know what we want, as Spirit, and we can create what we want.
I know this because God assures me that this is true.
The basic techniques we teach at CDM, including grounding, centering, and creating and destroying roses, gives us back our spiritual freedom by allowing us to let go of others’ concepts of God and ideas of how to communicate with God to allow us our own relationship w God. When we let go of others’ information about our spiritual path, we can be on our own path and can learn our own lessons.
But spiritual freedom is not just something we have. It is something we continually re-own and recreate.
When I left home to go to college, I was creating a new level of spiritual freedom. I allowed myself to take on new concepts and to make changes. I made separations from family and took on new responsibilities for myself. In other words, I was growing up, a process that is still going on.
When I left the Air Force, I created a new level of spiritual freedom by letting go of old limitations. I allowed myself to learn new lessons about relationships and abilities I didn’t know I had.
When I came to CDM, I began to accelerate changing and healing myself. I allowed myself the spiritual freedom to be myself. Being myself was the biggest challenge – and still is. I had always been what others wanted me to be.
Jesus came into the world to each us about a life of freedom. He came to show us that our first allegiance is to God, and then to ourselves, bot to the ideas of others.
Being yourself is the greatest freedom – and something no one can take away.
