Love Wins!

On this national day of remembering our independence and those who paid the ultimate price for it, it is only appropriate that I reflect at least briefly on freedom.

I would like to start by saying "Thank You."  Thank you to those who we never get to say thank you to, except through our prayers.  Thank you all you men and women who fixed on the higher ideal of liberty for generations to come, willingly gave your lives.  How much more selfless could a person get than to die for someone that they will never know and never know whether they will be grateful for what they did?

I will be the first to admit that at times I have taken my freedom for granted.  As I go about my daily life, the fact that I can do what I want without fear of being arrested or killed doesn't usually come to mind.  But people actually died for this.  They gave up the most precious thing they had in this world, their vary lives.  They gave up their families, sons, daughters, wives, husbands, without second thought.

And I would like to end by saying thanks to God.  Thank you God that the giving of a life in love need not be given in vein.  The fact that evil exists and that people try to control other people is terrible, but how wonderful that love wins.  We are living proof of it.