Living in a Free World

Americans have described our nation since its beginning as ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave.” 

If there is one thing I know, it is that all of us Americans don’t see our freedoms alike. 

Our nation has been divided for quite some time and our politicians have quarrelled and debated from day one.  James, the brother of Jesus, wrote two thousand years ago: “What is causing the quarrels and fights among you?  Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?

You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them.”  James 4:1-2  Does that sound familiar?

Solomon, a man gifted by God with extraordinary wisdom wrote some three thousand years ago: “History merely repeats itself, it has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new! 

We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations no one will remember what we are doing now.”  Ecclesiastes 1:9--11  Can someone please answer a few questions for me? In the land of the free, why does everyone have  to play by the same rules of the few?  Why should farmers give up 30 percent of their land to have someone else conserve it? 

Why must all of us be forced to go all-electric and shut down our gas and natural resource uses?  Why are we all being forced to take a vaccine that has not been proven safe or effective? Who is dictating what we can eat and how much of it we can have? 

Where’s the beef?  What is good for one is not good for all. I still live in the land of the free, don’t take my freedoms away from me.