I suppose it seems a bit obvious that today of all days I might be grateful for freedom but so what?  I am.  I am grateful for many kinds of freedom in my life.  Not just the freedom I am afforded by living in a country that allows freedoms not known to other countries, not just the freedom I have because of others willing to fight for it and protect it.  I am so grateful for those freedoms.  But beyond those freedoms I have a greater one that I am grateful for .  It is, of course, the freedom I have because I have put Christ as the authority over my life. Because I have allowed the One who knit me together and gave my life a purpose to have reign in my life.  And because of that freedom in and through him I have freedom to be in relationship with him .  And through that relationship from him I get to experience freedom from fear of others, freedom from fear of circumstances, freedom from things that try to drag me down and keep me from who I rea...