“We all bear the painful cost of freedom.
As we formally celebrate the commitment to break from England and to protect our natural rights, let’s hug to our breast our freedom – our most precious national treasure – knowing that it, like a child is imperfect and demanding but undeniably good.
Let’s keep our centuries old habit of protecting that child of America, that freedom.
She’s getting more rare and precious every day.”
James B. Stockdale
In the midst of your holiday celebrations – take time to remember that the freedom we celebrate today was not free.
“And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free,
And I won’t forget the men who died who gave that right to me…”
Lee Greenwood
“He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.”
Roy L. Smith.
May the true gift of Christmas – a tiny babe born in a stable who grew to be the Savior of the world – live in your hearts this Christmas.
Blessings from my home to yours.
Photo courtesy of Nils Fretwurst.
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” – Dr. Suess
I hope all you Black Friday Shoppers out there were armed and ready for the fray this morning.
May you come home victorious!
Cartoon courtesy of cartoonaday.com