As we celebrate the nation’s two-hundred and forty-ninth birthday today and the national pride we feel for this great country of ours, I want to take a moment and reflect on what that means to me.
Though the last official battle was fought in Yorktown in 1781, The Continental Congress lead by Thomas Jefferson proclaimed Americas Independance from British rule on July fourth, 1776. It gave us a renewed spirit and purpose; the will to continue the good fight for the most important document in history (aside from the Bible of course). A document unlike any other in history, one that proclaimed that the rights of all people were derived from God almighty and not from the governments that claimed right over their citizens.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
But let us not forget what it took to gain our independence. Men, who held an unwavering faith in God and to the ideals of freedom and self-reliance. That they were willing to lay down their own lives to secure the opportunity for this, the most valuable nation on earth. Not because of wealth, but because of indelible faith and spirit to an ideal that we are all free and created equal in the eyes of God.
It was those men under the leadership and ordination of God, General George Washington that led this country to its aspired glory.
Happy Independence Day!
Dean Davidson 
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