Ann

To all my American friends, Happy 4th of July.

Celebrate and value freedom

Today is a great day to celebrate freedom. It’s also a good time to remember to use your freedom wisely and responsibly.

When you are free to think, speak and act as you wish, anything is possible. It’s up to you
to follow the best, most loving, beneficial and life-enhancing of those possibilities.

Freedom is best maintained by those who make good use of it. Rather than taking your freedom for granted,
take it as a challenge to make a significant, continuing contribution to life.

The way to truly celebrate and show appreciation for freedom is to make it even more valuable for yourself and others.
Follow those great opportunities that freedom makes possible.

You can choose how to live your life, and from that fact springs a never-ending flow of great possibilities.
Whether life has been fulfilling or difficult, satisfying or disappointing,
you can always choose to move forward toward a more rewarding place.

Celebrate and value your freedom today and every day with the way you live.

You are free to choose, so always choose wisely.

— Ralph Marston

Vale

Freedom.Choice.Wisdom.

(you hit the trifecta!)

Ann

There are so many, especially women, in other countries in the world today, who are not free to make choices, who may be killed for even thinking about freedom.

My we each embrace the blessing and add a prayer today for all those who are not free, who live under tyrants and persecution. May they find freedom too. one day soon.

Hugs

chicory

I guess its easy to take freedom for granted, until you stop and meditate on just what it means, to us, and as you said, to those who can only dream of freedom.

I join you in that prayer , Ann.

hugs,
chicory

MIRecovery

I chose to use my freedom from alcohol to be the best I can be. I was given a second chance and God willing I will use it wisely.