Memorial

It is a couple of days after Memorial Day, but I want to express my personal thoughts on those who have gone before us allowing us to live in the kind of freedom we now experience. I have recently finished reading a book called, "Kitchiners last volunteer" which are the memories of Henry Allingham, the oldest survivor of the first world war. As I read the book, I was reminded that the veterans of world war I were all volunteers who enlisted out of a sense of duty, knowing that they were working to maintain the freedom of their homeland. In World War II the veterans, though enlisted, were prepared to give their lives to keep the world as we k new it. So many lives were sacrificed to give us the freedom we can enjoy today. But one death sits above all of these. Jesus willingly gave his life so that we might be free, and it a freedom that goes beyond the world and its dictators. It is a freedom that can be experienced in the midst of tyranny, a freedom in the midst of strife but it is a freedom that so few have experienced. Thank God for those who gave their lives for our freedom, and thank God for Jesus.