Welcome back to the 48th episode of the Thursday Meditations show!
Happy Fourth of July!
This is the show that helps you overcome average, and step up above mediocrity.
Before we get to the show, here are a couple announcements
Today is 2 days before Independence day.
Last year, I posted a blog post titled the only flag to fly the highest.
I think it’s important to talk about what I feel about the American Flag. I feel a lot of people feel differently.
Let me read the article and then let me speak on it.
(I read the article)
Nowadays, I feel people don’t believe. They don’t believe that America was built on a promise. They don’t believe that the challenge facing every American who’s lived since that promise was made is to live up to that promise.
Sometimes individuals fail. Many times, individuals have done great things to rectify failures, or to exemplify what it means to live up to that promise.
To me that promise was the idea that every man’s destiny was his own. That promise was that every man and woman can build their own life, but that promise stipulated that those men and women strive for high moral character and impeccable virtue. Those men and women would fail, but that promise would see them as better people.
The secret of the promise is that, the striving to uphold high moral character and impeccable virtue is what allows the holders of the promise to create a better life.
That flag represents that promise.
That flag also represents those who’ve sacrificed for that promise.
You see, that promise was not only meant for those who live in America, though our founders incorporated it into our founding documents. That promise was meant to give Freedom to all mankind, Freedom that as Victor Frankl puts it, comes from Liberty and Responsibility.
That flag represents liberty. It represents the freedoms we have to dissent from the majority and explain our point of view. It represents the freedom to gather and discuss.
That flag represents responsibility. It represents those who’ve honored that responsibility up to the last full measure of man. Many have died, many have lived to honor that responsibility.
Now that flag waves. Passed down from our forefathers, waving with the dual blessing and challenge of liberty and responsibility. That responsibility requires us to stand for good, light, truth, honor, and the connecting power of humankind. That liberty allows us to accept the consequences of our actions, both good and bad, as well as the ability to choose our own actions.
That flag represent liberty and responsibility. I hope to honor it by how I live. I hope to honor those who’ve carried the message of that flag to help liberate all humanity from their more evil aspects and instead help each of us reach to the “better angels of our nature”.
That flag represents freedom.
If you believe that that is wrong, then you must believe that that flag and the beliefs attached to it are wrong. Tear it down, because that is what you believe. Don’t be surprised when those of us who seek to honor liberty and responsibility stand and defend...
