Freedom

I have been thinking a lot about freedom and how blessed we are to live in this country where we have freedom. When I was eighteen and living in South Dakota, my dad sent me a nice letter about freedom. Here is a little part of that letter; Freedom is a difficult thing to achieve. It isn't a gift that you are entitled to but something you work for and treasure and make sacrifices for. It isn't a solid thing like a ball you can hold in your arms but it's like a light that grows within you. The more freedom you have the brighter you become. It can quickly dim or be snuffed out like a candle in the wind. Our mission is to gather up the light of freedom and hold onto it and discipline ourselves so that we don't let any of it slip away. How do we do that? We gather up freedom by making good choices. Free agency is the freedom to choose. The choices that we make determines how much freedom we have to make other choices in the future. I think about my dad's letter all the time. Freedom is a treasure and I just want to thank my dad for the letter he wrote years ago and reminding me of how blessed we are to have the freedoms we have today.