So in Vegas we go from 117 to 99 and cloudy and rainy ... that is like my life lately.  One minute sunny and hot and the next cloudy and rainy ... the new norm.

I've been looking for joy.  Not fun, although I like that ... but joy.  The psalms (yes the bible) says that joy await us inside His holy temple.  Joy in the freedom of those released from the chains of guilt and shame.  Joy and freedom.  Not the freedom to do whatever we want ... that's not freedom at all.  We are just exchanging one set of chains for another.  The chains that bind us to money, to those who don't care for us, to whatever promises fun and freedom from God but there is no freedom apart from God.

When we grasp the freedom to do what is right we are released from the chains that looked like freedom but were not.  We are freed from guilt, from stress, from justifying what we do, from a life that promises but doesn't deliver.  Freedom to do whatever we want, what we desire instead of the freedom that will break our chains to 'fun' and offer the freedom of an abundant life free from guilt, anger, fear, pain.

So today, be free.