The Freedom Flashback


By Jackie Overstreet August 19, 2025

When a Sound, Smell, or Glimpse Takes You Back to Pure Joy

You know those instances when you're sitting alone and suddenly a sound, a smell, or an

experience hits you?


It could be someplace you're driving by where you catch a glimpse of something that

takes you back to a moment you'd almost forgotten. Unlike other memories, this one isn't

connected to something negative. It's actually one of the most pleasurable things

you could ever experience.


You're remembering a time when there was excitement, pure joy, and anticipation that

was enough to have you buzzing with life.


In that moment, you sincerely hope it lasts forever. You want to bottle that feeling, that

freedom, that lightness of being.


Then life kicks in.


Life starts moving at its rapid pace. You make countless decisions in a given day, and you

forget about that moment. But there's a part of you that remains so thankful you were

able to experience it, even briefly.


That nostalgic feeling, that place where for a few moments in time you felt completely

free—like I'm channeling my inner Dominic Toretto here—but just for that moment in

time, you were free.


Here's what most people don't realize: it's possible to experience moments like that

every day.


The question is: do you believe that?


Those moments aren't accidents. They're glimpses of how Jesus Christ designed you to

live. Not constantly chasing the next high, but resting in the joy that comes from

knowing whose you are.


"You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your

right hand are pleasures forevermore." (Psalm 16:11)


The freedom you felt in that flashback moment? That's a taste of the permanent

freedom available to you in Christ. The anticipation, the excitement, the pure joy—that's

not meant to be a rare occurrence triggered by random memories.


That's meant to be your baseline.


Most people live their entire lives chasing those fleeting moments, not realizing they're

available every single day when you understand your identity in Christ. When you stop

trying to recreate external circumstances and start living from the internal reality of who

God says you are.


The sound, the smell, the experience that triggered that beautiful memory—it was just a

doorway back to a version of yourself that wasn't weighed down by the rapid pace of

life, the endless decisions, the constant pressure to perform.


What if I told you that version of yourself is still available? What if that freedom isn't

trapped in the past but waiting for you in the present?


If I asked you right now: Have you ever experienced that kind of pure joy? What made it

so wonderful? And what would you do to ensure that feeling could be permanent and

your life could truly be different?


The answer isn't in recreating the external moment. It's in understanding that the joy

you felt was always meant to be yours.


What memory keeps calling you back to who you really are?


Ready to stop chasing fleeting moments and start living in permanent freedom?


Get my Soul Trap Discovery System and discover what's keeping you from the joy that's

already yours.


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