True Freedom?

We often tend to focus on wanting the truth to set us free.  But how does the truth set us free?

Is it simply stating all the things that took place in dark corner of time?  Or is it even in confronting those who were involved with those dark actions?  I wish I could give you or anyone an easy answer, but when I don't have a single answer it becomes impossible to offer advice.  But truth in many ways has changed my own life.  It was speaking the truth of a dark day that took my husband ultimately to jail.  A truth that lead to a world that I never could have imagined.  

Yet in the roller coaster of life, I find that truth has many ways to be viewed.  It is often like changing the color of the lenses in your glasses.  It can seem rosy if you have a red lens.  And it can look crazy if you are wearing rainbow lenses...

In my world I am starting to understand that the truth of Domestic Violence.  It is still not something that you can blame or question why someone stayed.  And yet, it was my choice to allow many years ago a pushing of myself out of my comfort zone.  We didn't just get married and then wake up the next morning with him trying to kill me.

In many ways it was the simple challenges to my comfort that started the slide to our path.  The simple jokes of store clerks who I saw frequently became called boyfriends.  And the simple thing of joking when I was going to date them instead of the man who became my husband...  It also was followed by a whole list of things that in time eventually did lead to that night, but each thing was a little step or push away from the things I knew to be true.

And yet, in reading a book recently a comment struck me.  "True freedom: it was something inside.  Something beautiful."*  And maybe now in these past few years I am beginning to see that freedom within me.

*Quote from The Promise Box by Tricia Goyer