Happy Independence Day! I am grateful, thoroughly, and so emotionally today, for those who have fought bravely for our freedom we enjoy in the United States. Soldiers, speakers, politicians, parents, and citizens who have fought, spoken and worked so hard for the freedom we enjoy and are developing in the United States of America.
Their sacrifice is sacred, and is like into our Savior's. Jesus Christ lived for us, and then gave an ultimate sacrifice, He suffered an Atonement and died for us. More specifically, for our freedom. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He fought every battle you would, to gain empathy for you, and to give you the choice to be delivered unto eternal happiness.
God values freedom so much, He gave His own Son that we might have it. So we could choose! I stand all amazed, and I am grateful for God's guidance in settling this land of the free, that His Gospel might be restored and then taken to the whole world. God love each person, His child, equally, and I know His plan is to give every person an opportunity to partake fully in His love. He commands us to love one another, and to use the precious freedom we have been given to create peace in earth.
Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free
and the home of the brave!
- Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner
