Our Fourth of July Celebrating Freedom

We had a simple celebration.  Chris works in retail, so this was a big day for him at work.  I guess this is all part of our freedom right?  :O)

Anton and I watched a show about the American Revolution, on one of the history channels.  (comment on that:  I found it amazing that so many of our American heroes were so fashion-conscious, like General/President George Washington!  Gave me a chuckle.  Do great things and by all means look good doing them!  Ha ha.)

One particular character really stuck with me, Benedict Arnold.  What a cautionary study of pride!  He was a great military hero, but an unfriendly press really ate away at him.  He was so bitter that his sacrifices weren't appreciated.  This could happen to anyone, you know?  We all have that ugly pride to varying degrees.  He finally betrayed our country in a battle that was to take place that was named after him!   Now called Westpoint.   It was just a reminder to crave only the opinion of our Lord and Savior and serve Him.  People will not appreciate us as they should, or they will think too much of us when we don't deserve such credit.

We had some dear friends over for BBQ.  Chris made it home in time to say "hello" and "farewell" to our friends who didn't want to be out after dark.  Then we headed out to buy some fireworks.

I am thankful for our Freedoms.  With all the changes in our country, many feel this freedom is gone.  I'm not there yet.  But I see it slipping away.  Our Supreme Court just ruled in favor of Obamacare.  This is the President's and left-leaning members of Congress' attempt to social medicine.  By all appearances, the Chief Justice Roberts changed his mind at last minute and cast the swing vote to uphold Bill, in order to dodge the Supreme Court's responsibility of stopping it, even though there are many constitutional reasons he could have stopped it, and indeed he opposed the Federal Government forcing anyone to buy anything.  It could be a "tax."  There are many different conjectures as to why he did it, believing it was an "institutional" decision and not "constitutional" one, or based on logic following the constitution, that is their job.  I sort of reject the idea we can judge his motive or his heart.  But I think a lot of these conservative pundits are right.  I just hate to judge.  The thing that I'm glad about is that people are talking about the Constitution more.  We live in a day where lawlessness seems to be increasing.