So to celebrate, and in the spirit of celebrating America's independence and freedom this coming weekend, I thought I'd repost what I wrote a year ago, describing how I came to title this humble little corner of the blogosphere. Enjoy!
29 June 2009
The Comforter Speaks
How did I come up with title of this site? Well, it came just the other night. I was on a plane, returning from my Association meeting. I was reviewing the Association address from earlier in the day, when a thought came to me: "Perfectly Free, Freely Perfect." Based on what the Association address was about, this didn't seem to make much sense. I listened a little more, and heard it again - perfectly free, freely perfect. At that moment a thought of one of my neighbors came to mind - she is someone who has been dealing with health issues for a long time, and she has the belief of being constrained in her diet and having all kinds of different ailments. I began to pray for her, as well as for myself, with the thought that we, as children of God, are made perfectly free and freely perfect.
A short time later, the plane landed and I turned on my cell phone. There was a text message from my wife, saying that our young son "feels warm and is coughing" and was asking me to work for him, as she was already doing. That text came at about the time the idea, "perfectly free, freely perfect," came to my thought. I immediately replied to her with that statement. I heard the next morning that our son had improved dramatically.
Once I got home, I decided to research a little more. Perfectly free sounded great, but freely perfect? I was a bit fuzzy, so I went to an online dictionary Web site and looked up definitions of "freely." I saw this: "abundantly; gratuitously." Well, I liked the concept of us being abundantly perfect, but I dug further, looking up "gratuitously." The result? "bestowed; given without cost or obligation." This was an A-ha! moment for me.
We, as children and expressions of the one infinite God, are perfectly free (our freedom is complete, without any fetters by finite human perception) and freely perfect (our perfection is given to us by God, without any cost or condition, a quality bestowed by our Father-Mother).
What an idea, eh?
A short time later, the plane landed and I turned on my cell phone. There was a text message from my wife, saying that our young son "feels warm and is coughing" and was asking me to work for him, as she was already doing. That text came at about the time the idea, "perfectly free, freely perfect," came to my thought. I immediately replied to her with that statement. I heard the next morning that our son had improved dramatically.
Once I got home, I decided to research a little more. Perfectly free sounded great, but freely perfect? I was a bit fuzzy, so I went to an online dictionary Web site and looked up definitions of "freely." I saw this: "abundantly; gratuitously." Well, I liked the concept of us being abundantly perfect, but I dug further, looking up "gratuitously." The result? "bestowed; given without cost or obligation." This was an A-ha! moment for me.
We, as children and expressions of the one infinite God, are perfectly free (our freedom is complete, without any fetters by finite human perception) and freely perfect (our perfection is given to us by God, without any cost or condition, a quality bestowed by our Father-Mother).
What an idea, eh?
