“Out of Prison”

We are born free.
Wild-hearted. Light-footed.
Running barefoot through grass, not yet caught by time.
The sky is open. The heart is open.
The world is play.
Then, slowly, the walls rise.
First, the days are numbered--
Monday through Sunday, round and round.
Then come the rules, the clocks, the obligations.
And then the wounds.
The moment you were betrayed.
The day you lost someone.
The hour your heart broke in silence.
The beatings. The fear. The grief.
These moments carve bricks from your memory.
And brick by brick, they build a prison inside you.
Not made of steel, but of perception.
Of belief.
Of the idea that life is against you.
That you are unlucky.
That God has turned His face from you.
That prison becomes invisible.
But it shapes how you walk,
how you breathe,
how you trust,
how you dream.
And many people never leave.
They decorate their cells with distraction.
They polish the bars with pride.
But still—they are asleep inside.
Until one day—maybe today--
a crack forms in the wall.
A light slips through.
You realize:
The pain wasn’t a punishment.
It was the chisel of love.
The loss wasn’t a curse.
It was the clearing for something deeper.
The suffering wasn’t proof of your unworthiness.
It was proof that your soul is strong enough to wake up.
This is when you begin to walk out.
Out of the prison.
Not by running away—but by turning inward.
By seeing the story not as trauma, but as training.
Not as rejection, but refinement.
This is the great reversal:
You are not broken.
You are being carved.
Into something only God could envision.
And when you finally step outside your inner cage,
the air feels new.
The sky is open again.
But now—you carry wisdom.
You carry stillness.
You carry light earned through shadow.
And now you know:
Freedom is not out there.
It is the ability to look at life and say--
"Nothing is against me. Everything is for me."
You are not here to compete.
You are not here to prove.
You are here to remember:
You are a unique expression of the Infinite.
Not favored, not forgotten.
Just uniquely, eternally loved.
Welcome back.
Welcome Out of Prison.