Jonathots Daily Blog
(1996)
Glancing at my calendar, I realized that I am heading off tonight to Freeland.
I was struck by the name. The two most overused words in the English language, in my opinion, have to be love and free. “Love” because we feel that we express greater devotion by inserting it to display our favor, and “free” simply because it sounds very American and establishes our autonomy. Facts are, love is not an emotion without a commitment and free is not a decision to stubbornly express your desires.
To be free is to know the truth, which then has the ability to make and form you into a vessel that is uncomplicated.
I giggle sometimes when I realize how difficult it is for movie makers to portray the English as the villains in the American Revolution. After all, the British weren’t raping women, spraying poisonous gas or burning down cities in their conquest of the Americas. They over-taxed, put soldiers in people’s homes when they probably shouldn’t have and took for granted that these new colonists were loyal to the crown.
But they wanted freedom–all thirteen colonies of ’em. What they got was a release from British control … left to themselves.
This is why the American experiment continues today. We’re still trying to get the truth to make us free. We have made some horrible transitions:
- Although we wanted freedom to make our own choices, we didn’t give it to the Native Americans.
- We insisted on states’ rights to continue slavery, without considering God-given grace for the black man and woman.
- Segregation continued in this country up until 1964 and we still evaluate one another based on so many different criteria that granting universal freedom to all the populace at any given moment is a perpetually angry, if not bloody, discourse.
So as I head off to Freeland tonight, I want to communicate a very simple principle: to be free is to embrace the truth and not be afraid of what it reveals.
Because even though the information may be startling at first, it WILL always have its day–and it is better to have welcomed it instead of barring the door.
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