these things will CHANGE.

amidst pages filled primarily with prayers of new-found gratitude and repeated requests, something different has emerged in my journals: prayers of promise. prayers of newfound peace for current (seemingly constant) struggles, and prayers of anticipation for things yet to come. i'm celebrating things that haven't even happened yet - what a shift, from feeling hopeless and defeated to being eager and thankful for a freedom i haven't even experienced yet.

not only that, i got a tangible glimpse of that today. my mind is blown. oh man. oh man. please pray.

please, Father, keep my eyes on the freedom you set before us. thank you that you are faithful even when i am faithless. please, continue to blow my mind and lift weights i felt must permanently be burdensome, exempt from your promises for freedom. but they're not, and you are good and your promises are the only ones i can put my full trust in. please help me continue to walk in a trust of you and an awareness that you are loosening my chains. let me throw off all that hinders, and please let me see the days of freedom you've given me glimpses of, realized. be my everything, be my rescuer.