Storydame Sunday sermon #1

Who makes the decisions of what’s right and wrong for your life? If you’re 18 or older and your answer isn’t you, you’re likely in captivity to something or someone.

Look beyond to the freedom that awaits. © Donna Lynn Ewbank

Look beyond to the freedom that awaits. © Donna Lynn Ewbank

If you’re held captive today by anything from a substance to a controlling person, begin to walk in the freedom that’s yours according to Isaiah 61:1. If that something or someone resists your leaving, it isn’t, and never was, “right.”

Breaking free from captivity makes for the most enticing and engaging stories. A notable example of the freedom from captivity story is the redemption story. George W. Bush used to the redemption story so successfully it helped him nab the Oval Office!

Jon Spelman‘s tales of romance gone wrong, really wrong, so wrong it’s scary on Friday and Saturday nights @ the National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, Tennessee, erased any fright that I’m still single with no Mr. Right in sight.