I just received the following in an email:
Happy New Year!
...The Whale... If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso and a line tugging in her mouth.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.
When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them.
Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.
I pass this on to you, my friend, in the same spirit.
In this short email, I find the very essence of what Jesus and God have done for us. They have provided a way to be free from bondage, lies, darkness, Death.
May we picture Jesus diligently working around us and in our hearts to free us from these bonds that hold us, weigh us down. May we understand that by His innocence and His willing death, this is exactly what He has done and God continues to do in our hearts if we ask Him, if we allow Him.
I pray for us all that we know and accept the freedom Jesus provides, that we live in joy, that we are thankful for what has been done for us and that we too can be instruments in God's hand to help free others from bondage that leads to Death.
Go out with the knife that is the word of God and bring the knowledge of freedom to those in your path.
To a mighty new year,
k8t
k8t(at)faceofagirl(dot)com
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