When we are free

Since this nation was born, we the people, (citizens), have had freedoms that very few other nations citizens have enjoyed.

Have we taken these freedoms too far? For example, Freedom of Speech. By this I mean do we ignore politeness, compassion for another, and the right to say whatever we feel like saying!

When I was much younger, I too had to learn the hard way of the words that came out of my mouth, especially whenever around the children. Many times, children repeated what I had just said. Once time I used a bad word and when I finished talking my best friend’s son repeated this bad word. Needless to say I learned how to be careful of the words I used.

Today we have TV programs that do the same thing. The hosts condemn what they believe is wrong with our country and do not refrain from the negativity that they spew out. And the TV owners do not care about how they and their programs influence the young public, it is all about money.

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version (KJV)

Sadly, the above is more truth than most of us wish to hear. Do you feel that way too?.

Ida M Temple