The trick is growing up without growing old.

Casey Stengel

Have you ever known true freedom? If you can remember anything from your childhood, then you can probably look back upon a specific time when you were truly free.

For me it was Little League Baseball. I was nine and it was summertime in Kirkland Washington. I was on the Coyotes and I played third base. I can remember slinging my glove over the handlebars of my stingray bike and racing to the field for practice, except when you are nine and riding to play baseball, it never seems like practice... it seems like Heaven!

When you are nine you have your entire life still waiting to be lived. You are alive and you are free.

Probably, you are wondering what this has to do with anything - at least anything of great importance - so I will get to my point. This life simply doesn't last forever, and it doesn't seem to come with nearly enough moments when you feel absolutely "free". The reason for this is that, when we grow up, we sometimes also grow out of taking the time to savor God's blessings. And, when you stop savoring God's blessings... you get old!

If you have found yourself having grown old, then let me suggest this: Find something that makes you remember the freedom you experienced when you were doing something you loved - something that made time just seem to stand still. It can be done, you know, if you will first take the time to remember that you are still a child of God and that you still have eternity just waiting to begin. When you remember this - when you start to savor life again as if you were nine years old - you might just be pleasantly surprised to find freedom again.

It is found in Christ.

I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. Jesus (John 10:10)

The truth shall set you free. Jesus (John 8:32)