What Price Freedom?

"The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.  Freedom had now appeared, to disappear no more forever.  It was hear in every sound, seen in every thing.  It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition.  I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without seeing it, and felt nothing without feeling it.  It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm."

- Frederick Douglass, The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass -

Freedom is a strange and beautiful thing.  Unless the soul knows what it's like to exist without it, it cannot be desired.  Many have lived without it, and yet have never hungered for it.  Many have lived with it, but have never cherished it.  All souls need the most ultimate form of it.

Few will reach out for it.

The United States of America has set up a framework by which all have the liberty to pursue it.  It has taken a couple hundred years for the framework to be extended to all, from a governmental standpoint.  Nevertheless, I firmly believe that we are there.

And yet the human souls within this land do not take advantage of this framework and continue to submit themselves to slavery.  The slavery to their own flesh.  The whimsical compulsions of another's manipulations.  The whimsical compulsions of others' thoughts.

Listen to the voice of the One Who formed you in your mother's womb!  In this listening you will find the desire and embracing of your true freedom.