Mosquito netting

I planned to write this blog right after worship on Sunday.  In the Caribbean, this is right after - so I'm good.
  Vivian delivered her first sermon on Sunday past.  She talked about mosquito netting, and sleeping under them.  It did take us awhile to get all the nuances straight - people who have lived with something all their lives sometimes don't cover all the salient points on the first go round.  By now we are doing everything properly, I think, and the number of mosquito bites is greatly reduced.
  The point of her mention of same was to point out that to the uninitiated, sleeping under a net seems to be a sort of captivity.  You are trapped inside this net in fear for your life [which considering the various sorts of infections mosquitoes carry, is no exaggeration], not being able to move or especially get up to go to the bathroom without risk.
  Galatians 5 1 For freedom Christ has set us free.   Just as the net encloses us in a freedom - freedom from mosquitoes, freedom from threat, so that our night can give is peaceful rest, so Christ encompasses our lives in freedom, so that we can serve God and neighbour.  To the uninitiated, that freedom to serve might look like slavery, but to those who are in Christ, it is true freedom.  
  So we live here, sleeping under our net - 'safe and secure from all alarms.'  We are free from mosquitoes [mostly] and also free from the need for blankets.  And secure in the Freedom of God's love.