Freedom to me is...

• Adventure
• Being myself...true Melisa
• Being heard
• Change
• Child's play
• Creating
• Dancing
• Drinking a cup of coffee over a good conversation
• Driving with the windows down
• Eating Chocolate...actually
• Eating any food I want
• Encouraging someone just because
• Exercising for fun
• Exposing my sin to a trusted friend
• Expressing myself with confidence
• Family time
• Feeling good emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually
• Forgiveness
• Fridays
• Giving without expecting anything in return
• God's grace
• Home schooling
• Honesty
• Jumping on the tramoline
• JESUS
• Kicking back and just 'being'
• Laughing until it hurts
• Lazy mornings
• Learning something new
• Letting go of the 'unnecessary'
• Living among the pines
• Living in God's perfect will for my life
• Loose fitting clothes
• Loving others for who they are and being loved for who I am
• Mocha Lattes
• New encounters, new places, new 'scenery'
• No Calendars (uuugh...makes me feel too caged up)
• Not letting what other's think of me affect me
• Praising God through dance or lifted hands
• Purging (getting rid of 'stuff')
• Quiet time
• Reading
• Running
• Shopping with cash in hand
• Singing
• Sleeping in
• Soaking in God's beauty through nature...bodies of water, mountains, sunsets, sunrises
• Spontaneity
• Taking walks
• Telling the Truth and hearing the Truth
• Texting a friends when you know you can't engage in a long phone conversation
• Traveling with no time constraints or money contraints
• Understanding
• Vacation
• Walking along the seashore
• Watching my children laugh and play
• When people 'get me'
• X,Y and Z...can't find words beginning with these letters, but I believe the above list describes a little more about me and how I view freedom.
  
  Christ died to set us Free. Let us live according to that Truth. He came to liberate the captive from their bondage (Isaiah 61). Thank you for Freedom.