This past weekend we celebrated our nation gaining independence nearly 250 years ago. Now, a quarter
of a millennium later, our nation seems to view freedom as an entitlement. As
if we are freedom trust fund babies and it is something owed us just because we
are born here.
But we are much more than passive beneficiaries of freedom.
We are stewards of it as well. As stewards, we are responsible for how we wield
it. We can squander it, or we can protect and nurture it. We can relinquish it
or relish it. We can view it as if, because there was no cost to us, that it’s
free. Or we can observe the costs others bore and understand it is priceless.
Regardless of how we choose to view freedom, we are stewards
nonetheless. We are accountable for how we’ve exercised our liberty and the
mindset we’ve selected toward that end.
Freedom is too precious to live in the self-imposed prisons
of bitterness, fear, hatred, jealousy, and regret. We must live free. Our
liberty was purchased at too great a price to live any other way.
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