Being a prisoner sometimes means not fully knowing what is holding us captive. We drag our experiences, our lies, our beliefs behind us believing this weight is normal and almost comfortable. If I have figured out how to survive in this cage I call life, then why should I believe there is anything else? Why should I hope there is more?
God has a way of setting us free from chains. Of taking us from a place of survival to true life, uninhibited by the prison we once lived. Cassidy LaMair, a California native, knew her chains all too well. They usually took the form of her emotionally and verbally abusive father that left her trying to survive the next moment.
When Cassidy came to college at K-State change became a welcomed friend. Finding herself on a dorm floor surrounded by once strangers and now dear sisters, Cassidy began to explore the person of Jesus. It was an open and honest opportunity to ask questions and dream about what God could do in her own life.
On a cold night in her dorm room, cuddled up in a blanket going over a verse, Cassidy met the Lord in fullness. She was overcome with the most intense and pure feeling of love. In her gut she felt this deep reaffirming voice saying, "I love you" over and over again. It was in this moment Cassidy realized she had been caged in by anger that ate her from the inside out and chained to a deep fear of the world that kept her from truly living.
In surrender and experiencing beautiful and redemptive grace, Cassidy is no longer the same girl. She is free. Free to love, free to live, free to experience the fullness God has for her. Cassidy is no longer a prisoner but a beautiful, new creation in Christ.
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