For America, today is a special day of remembrance. The day our freedom was secured and when we became the United States of America.

The patriots of the American Revolutionary War fought to allow us the freedom we have today in America. Because of their sacrifice, we should spend today thinking of what it cost them. Some, their property and possessions. Some, their freedom. Some, their lives. But for these men (and women who stood behind them), they would have given all they had for their freedom.

I’ve chosen a patriotic song today that I pray will touch you in some way. And of course, it’s by the Gaither’s, so you know it is good.

Happy birthday America!

“Let Freedom Ring”[i]

Deep within the heart has always known that there is freedom
Somehow breathed into the very soul of life
The prisoner, the powerless, the slave have always known it
There’s something that keeps reaching for the sky

Even life begins because a baby fights for freedom
And songs we love to sing have freedom’s theme
Some have walked through fire and flood to find a place of freedom
And some faced hell itself for freedom’s dream

Let freedom ring wherever minds know what it means to be in chains
Let freedom ring wherever hearts know pain
Let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key
We can be free and we can sing – let freedom ring

God built freedom into every fiber of creation
And He meant for us to all be free and whole
When my Lord bought freedom with the blood of His redemption
His cross stamped pardon on my very soul

I’ll sing it out with every breath, I’ll let the whole world hear it
This hallelujah anthem of the free
That iron bars and heavy chains can never hold us captive
The Son has made us free and free indeed

Let freedom ring down through the ages from a hill called Calvary
Let freedom ring wherever hearts know pain
Let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key
You can be free and you can sing let freedom ring
Let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key
You can be free and you can sing let freedom ring
You can be free and you can sing – let freedom ring – let freedom ring

Click here to listen to this beautiful song.

Grace and peace be yours in abundance,

Donna

[i] “Let Freedom Ring,” words and music by Gloria and Bill Gaither, Gaither Music Company, 1982.