It has been 246 years since the signing of Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. The Pledge of Allegiance, written in 1885 and codified by Congress in 1954, ends with the words, “with liberty and justice for all.” As the phenomenal civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer said, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” Those words are as relevant today as they were decades ago. Jesus taught the importance of freedom throughout his brief ministry. In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus explains to a distrusting attorney that the way to inherit eternal life is to “love your God with all your heart, mind, and strength…and to love your neighbor as yourself.” When we free ourselves from hate, discontent, anger, resentment, we make it possible for ourselves and everyone else to be free.
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