Free As A Bird by Charlie Sheppard
This year I have carved a little bird. I have contemplated the God-given freedoms that birds demonstrate so well, contrasted with the constraints either imposed upon us, or that we allow to limit our lives.
Those who have known harsh imprisonment may speak to us about such freedoms and 3 inspirational figures in recent history feature in this short film.
The blessing For Freedom, by John O’Donohue begins…
“As a bird soars high
In the free holding of the wind,
Clear of the certainty of ground,
Opening the imagination of wings
Into the grace of emptiness
To fulfil new voyagings,
May your life awaken
To the call of its freedom...”