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November 2009 
What does personal freedom mean to you?
Posted on Nov 5th, 2009
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Laurie
Laurie
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 05, 2009:
Freedom is not something which can be given to you by someone else. It is something that you have inside of you, a way you choose to be. This was never portrayed more beautifully than by Viktor Frankl, a long time prisoner in bestial concentration camps where he found himself stripped to naked existence. Even in the degradation and abject misery of a concentration camp, Frankl was able to exercise the most important freedom of all - the freedom to determine one's own attitude and spiritual wellbeing.
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When it comes down to core values, you have got to stand firm or you will be beaten into the ground and maybe never recover. You can give up a lot of freedoms that may not radically alter your life, but once you give up the I AM, the light goes out and you become only meat.
Sandi - I couldn't agree with you more.
Core values = Essence
Essence = I AM
You lose I AM, you lose everything.
I am in agreement with all you have said.
I am Love,
Good morning, Jeff! Thank you for dropping by. Today is a RedBubble day for me. I have my “Artist's Date” this afternoon. I'm looking forward to visiting your work.
Good Morning Laurie! Happy Redbubble day !!!
I'm putting out an intention for you to have a remarkable writing day and that you break your own personal best, and that you comb that apparently 9” sticky-outy hair. I have a burn permit, have a rake, will work for satisfaction.
Sandi - Thank you for that wonderful intention - I sincerely appreciate it. Today I'm writing an article about grace for the Jan/Feb publication of Evolving Your Spirit magazine. Gratefully, I've been on the receiving end of much grace in my life. As such, this will be like writing about a well-known friend, a constant companion.
Have a fantastic day in the great outdoors! I'll live vicariously through you. I'm watching the sparrows play in the hedges just below the window in my home office. And I'm being spurred on to victory by my bare-leafed giant Oak friend.
Once again Laurie, you are spot on. ”Freedom is not something which can be given to you by someone else.”
Gil - Thank you for dropping by. I hope you're having a nice day (evening for you I think).
Hi Laurie,
I have sparrows that live at my house too! I have held a few fledglings in my time and put them back in their nest boxes:) One sat in my hand not too long ago and enjoyed his head being scratched for a second or two. I gave him back:)
But for me always the best part of having all the birds around here is just watching how happy they are being free doing as nature intended. Some have sat with me on the porch and I love the way they look me in the eye.
Love the “core values=essence=I am”
Liza - I'm working from my home office today and my window has a terrific view of Oak tree in the front yard and the wide hedge that juts out underneath the window. There are lots of sparrows darting in/out of the hedges. Some of the leaves that fell from the oak are on top of the hedge – and the birds are using them for what looks like “peek-a-boo!”
There are lots of squirrles skampering all over the tree. They are stealing the acorns that the woodpeckers so carefully stored for the winter months. Oh well, as Sandi said in her blog today, “What goes around, comes around.”
Laurie, I'm glad you've had a good, productive day. I love it when I can look back and say, “Well done, old girl!” Of course I'm sore as a boil all over, but yard is shaping up for winter. The piece you were working on, Grace, what a wide open topic that must have been! Like you, looking back, my life has been been one example of Grace after another. Hind sight being 40-40, you never see the pattern until enough has accumulated to make it visible. I will look forward to reading it when it is published.
Miz Pumpkinseed is now guarding the gate to the Henyard. The Ladies looked very startled when I propped her up there, looking from me to her and back again, as if asking, ” what do we do? what do we do?” Silly old things.
I like the way you said, “… you never see the pattern until enough has accumulated to make it visible.” Oh how true!
I can well imagine The Ladies surprise to have a perfectly still “person” standing right there – all day. It would give me the willies too!