Freedom, what does it mean?
Freedom, what does it mean?
Fourth of July, we think about a day off, the beach, BBQs and hanging with family and friends but it's not about all that, it's about our country's freedom.
It's really about all kinds of freedoms, freedoms to be able to speak our minds, to choose who we want to vote for, who we want to marry. Free to do and say many things people in other countries cannot do or say.
For me personally, freedom means something different, see being in a verbally abusive relationship for twenty-four years, it means I am able to be myself. To say whatever comes out of my mouth, even if I sound like a sailor!
It means I have my own ideas, my own friends, my own thoughts and I no longer have to walk around on eggshells worried about setting someone off.
Freedom is so very sweet to me as I know how it felt to be a prisoner, to look outside wishing and praying I was free yet not having the strength to leave that terrible situation.
I remember crying every day for God to end my suffering, yet every day I awoke next to my captor.
Until one day the pain was just too great and it overpowered the fear I felt. I found the courage to stand up and said no more. I knew that I must be free at any cost because I could not breathe anymore. I was dying a slow and painful death. I realized that I wanted to live, more than anything, I wanted to live and laugh and feel joy and peace in my heart!
So I stepped out on faith, I changed my life, I made myself happy. Can I say it's been an easy road to joy? No, it has not but I can tell you how sweet peace and joy feels like now I am no longer looking out that window wishing I was living that life.
I am living it, I am living my life large and free! I am stepping out of my box doing things I never thought I could do and it is amazing. I know that I did not do this on my own, God has brought me here and then carried me when I thought I could no longer make it. He believed it for me, he knew the end result, I just followed and believed.
So today my friends I will leave you with this. I realized that this 4th of July, 2020, I cannot celebrate because we are all not free. Many people especially Black people live in a free country yet do not have the same rights afforded to me. They are still captives in a society that still has a slave mentality and for that reason, we will stand together with my brothers and sisters until all people have the same rights. Until we are all free until we all have the same rights. Until we are all paid the same until we all have the same rights to good schools and housing. Until we all have the right to good-paying jobs and to be able to drive or walk down the street and not be worried about getting killed.
Yes, this is a free country, yet so many of us are still not free. Unfortunately, this is what freedom means in today's world, in this country the land of the free… for some not all.
We must stand up and speak up for those whose voices are not being heard. We are not free until we are all free.
I want to give my thanks to all the brave men and women who risk their lives to keep us free everyday...Thank you.
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