This has been a busy but incredible weekend as we celebrated Ruth’s graduation and spent time with family. We really are blessed. It has also been our annual Memorial Day that reminds us so many other things as well. I draw your attention to our freedom, and the fact that we live in a great nation. This nation and our freedom were are not simple gifts that just happened over time. There have been men and women who have given their lives and fought for our freedom. They paid the highest price for us to enjoy what we have. Yet we would agree that this is not a perfect nation, the USA. We have much that we need. We have much that needs to be fixed, and we have people, including ourselves, that desperately need God. Psalm 33:12 NASB Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord , The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance. Our strength as individual Christians and even as a nation comes from our connection to God. When we honor God, we find