Greetings Dear Reader,
Sunny bright mornings and pale moonlit nights
Keep me from feeling alone
Now, I'm learning to fly and this freedom is like
Nothing that I've ever known
There is an Opus and Bill film called A Wish for Wings that
Work. It is basically about a penguin
that wishes to fly and his adventure trying to get there. There is also the last of the fascinations
and abilities mentioned in Radio Flyer.
It is worth noting all seven:
There are seven lost secret fascinations and abilities.
They are that: animals can talk; your favorite blanket is woven from a fabric
so mighty, that once pulled over your head, it becomes an impenetrable force
field, nothing is too heavy to lift with the aid of a cape; your hand held
forefinger out and thumb up, actually fires bullets; jumping from any height
with an umbrella is completely safe; monsters exist and can be both seen an
done battle with; and the greatest, most special and regrettable loss of
all: the ability to fly.
Somewhere along the way, we forget that we are meant to
fly. We chase it in many ways that do
not pan out. It is woven throughout
fiction. We pretend that we can fly and
even invent devices that help us break free of the ground for a bit. What we really desire, however, is to fly.
I am learning how, Dear Reader. No, I am not taking courses for a pilot’s
license or wearing a glide suit and jumping off cliffs. I am learning just how free it is to only
follow Christ. I am seeing just how much
freedom and peace there is in dropping my expectations and demands. In putting together a few hard standards for
my life, finding great freedom in riding these particular rails.
Here are the basics and they truly are yielding a level of
freedom that I have never known. The
first is that I will do my best to love the Father and humans with all that I
am in every situation. Second, I am
working to be lovingly unoffendable.
This part is hard at times but it forces me back to the first and
primary directive of love. There are
moments when I have to resist the strong urge to become angry at an inappropriate
level. It is a struggle worth winning.
The third aspect of this is the entire idea of moving all my
life into the freedom provided in obeying the first two standards. Free of
expectations and demands, I listen and move.
I begin to accept the idea that there are subjective aspects to following
Christ that others will not understand. I work toward the things I feel the
Father wishes me to become. I will not
try to move things that are out of my purview and I will interact with every
situation with love to the best of my power.
If you need practical suggestions for how to work all this
out, I am willing to share what I do, but please remember Dear Reader that your
journey is not mine. Your path will
unfold as it should and I may be able to guide you a little from my experience. What you must do is find it for yourself. I always was skeptical when others would say
that I could not understand this from the outside. I have learned that it is true. I invite you to follow with me and discover
it for yourself. We can learn to fly
together if you like.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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