What are the shackles of our lives? What is it that keeps us from being totally free? We have those habits, fears, temptations that haunt us. They keep us from truly being free to befriend both God and our neighbor. Those restrictions keep us tied in knots which can only be loosened by our openness to the grace and guidance of the Holy Spirit. Do we really wish to be set free or are we comfortable to keep in our little world like the man from the tombs in today's Gospel?
How often do we ask, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?" Are we willing to even ask the question? If we do, we may be called to proclaim what Jesus told the man in the Gospel, "Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you."