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 Motivational Message
Issue 28
Week of May 26-30, 2003
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I Just Want to be Free - I Just Want to be Me!
By Audrina Jones Bunton
It was a sunny Saturday in April 2003 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Carolina-blue sky seemed to kiss the wavy waters as the gentle wind embraced the beach. After enjoying the beach for a while with my 16-year old daughter and husband, one by one, they ventured off to find a spot on the beach away from the water.
I stood close to the water barely wetting my feet and totally mesmerized by God's awesome creation. The voices of the beach-goers gradually faded as the sounds of the wind, the waves, and the seagulls emerged.
Suddenly, my attention was diverted as I noticed how my son and nephew were totally immersed in the moment. Challenging the sand that seemed to capture their feet with every enormous wave, they went from only getting wet from the legs down, to being totally drenched from head to toe. Forgetting about the hunger that occupied their every thought moments ago, they were simply enjoying the moment to be free -- to be free to be who they were.
As I stood there watching and smiling, my smile turned to laughter as my eyes filled with tears at the unexpected experience of enjoying the same spellbound freedom that they were enjoying. I thought about life, and the choice that I have to be free. Then I thought about how countless of individuals are held captive in daily routines, never taking one moment out of the day to just be - to just be free.
After a while, knowing that this moment must end, I motioned the boys to come on to leave. They yelled, "Just one more time!" "Okay," I said, as I stood full of laughter and tears in my eyes, experiencing my moment of freedom -- as they freely enjoyed their moment without limitations. "One more time," they yelled repeatedly. "Okay, just one more time, " I repeatedly yelled back, until that moment finally ended.
My son and nephew will never realize how their expression of freedom evoked a renewed freedom within me in that moment, on that fine April day. The freedom of knowing that at any time I choose, I can be free to just be me -- just as I did that day. I will never let that moment, that experience, or that choice go.
What an experience it is to be free - to be free to just be me, without self-limitations, or the limitations of others.
What actions must you take to experience your true freedom today?
At any moment that you choose, you too can be free -- to just be -- who you are.
Think about it, experience it, live it, and never let it go!
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Think About It!!
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be." -- James Baldwin
"Freedom lies in being bold." -- Robert Frost
Contact Information
Electronic mail address: ajbunton@purposefully-living.com
Web address: http://www.purposefully-living.com
Mailing address
Audrina Jones Bunton
P. O. Box 52684
Durham, NC 27717-2684
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