4th of July Meditation

The Four day of July is experienced in the U.S. as a celebration of the Independence of the United State of America from Great Briton two hundred and thirty three years ago. What have we done with the freedom fought for and won? The premises of self-determination and freedom have fallen to rhetoric and propaganda. As with most societies we have fallen to the same human vices that others have…greed and self-interest. We experience a world saturated with fear, self-absorption, without reasoned principles. A world power that follows an “anything goes” is the rule of self-interest and imperialism of old renewed. Each fourth I read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. My hope every year is that we reflect on the principles of this country and contemplate the meaning.