
Firecrackers popping, potato salad made. Pop and beer are in the cooler covered with ice and we congregate as friends together to watch the evening fireworks.
The 4th of July – it is one of our favorite holidays.
It is a favorite because it represents freedom, independence and liberty.
We are free to be our own person, free to move around and make our own choices.
We have autonomy and self-determination.
Our liberty was bought with the blood, sweat and tears of others who stood up for what was right and fought to help our country become free and remain free.
That liberty assures us that we are free from tyranny, unreasonable control and restrictions of a despotic, arbitrary or over-reaching government.
What are we doing with that freedom?