We are approaching the day on which we celebrate the birth of our country. That birth, like the one each of us endured, was painful, violent and bloody. Like the infant of any birth, no one knew for sure what the birth of this nation would bring. It filled people with hope following the imprisonment in the womb of oppressive British control.
Even though violence, roughness and difficulties threatened infant mortality, somehow the spirit of early Americans, endowed now with freedom for the first time, was able to overcome unbelievable obstacles. Their perseverance was story book stuff but in the end, they won! What we now enjoy was built by legions of ordinary people doing all the things necessary to succeed no matter how difficult. Many died in their efforts.
This year, when we celebrate this great event, God's greatest gift to mankind, remember those who nurtured the infant freedom and the suffering they willingly endured to be free. We, in a way, are enduring some different but equally difficult challenges to keeping the freedom passed on to us by them. Will we make the sacrifices necessary to put us back on track. Do we have the resolve and spirit to rescue our freedoms and pass them on to new generations?
Only our own greed and demands for things we cannot afford will deprive new generations of the opportunity to live free and prosperous lives. Will we sacrifice for them as the pioneers did for themselves and for us? The world's greatest hope for freedom and democracy resides in us. If we lose it, it will disappear into the hands of tyrants.
Let's hope Americans will be celebrating the birth of freedom forever.
Even though violence, roughness and difficulties threatened infant mortality, somehow the spirit of early Americans, endowed now with freedom for the first time, was able to overcome unbelievable obstacles. Their perseverance was story book stuff but in the end, they won! What we now enjoy was built by legions of ordinary people doing all the things necessary to succeed no matter how difficult. Many died in their efforts.
This year, when we celebrate this great event, God's greatest gift to mankind, remember those who nurtured the infant freedom and the suffering they willingly endured to be free. We, in a way, are enduring some different but equally difficult challenges to keeping the freedom passed on to us by them. Will we make the sacrifices necessary to put us back on track. Do we have the resolve and spirit to rescue our freedoms and pass them on to new generations?
Only our own greed and demands for things we cannot afford will deprive new generations of the opportunity to live free and prosperous lives. Will we sacrifice for them as the pioneers did for themselves and for us? The world's greatest hope for freedom and democracy resides in us. If we lose it, it will disappear into the hands of tyrants.
Let's hope Americans will be celebrating the birth of freedom forever.
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