Devotional Sermon #106: LIFE FELT LIKE A PRISON FROM WHICH I LONGED TO ESCAPE - Inspirational Christian stories
The urgency of the need not only engulfed me; its intensity also took me by surprise. I tried to scream, to release the pressure that had built up inside me, but the scream jammed mid-throat. I surely needed relief from the burdens and meaninglessness of life. It was something that I needed to do , one thing I eagerly wanted to be , something that I had waited for since birth - and it was time, a 'now or never' kind of situation. I had had enough of the status quo. I could no longer continue to live the same way. I needed a break, if life was to have even a bit of meaning - yet it was a break that neither any man nor the whole world could give. My eyes shifted to the ' handcuffs' of my life - cold as ice, slowly eating into the wrist-bones of my soul. Drops of sweat covered my palms, and my brow was no different. I looked at my legs - the leg irons were still in place, ironically shining and determined, evidence of what I had been all these years. Oh, how I detest