The Price of Freedom

What is worth defending?  Would you give your life for these documents?

Williamsburg Gift Shop

Today, let us give thanks for the years that don't require that sacrifice.  And let us give prayers of thanks to those who work to make those years possible.

Memorial Site in Tallapoosa, Georgia

Let us give thanks for the freedoms that have been kept safe.

Mepkin Abbey Shelves with Books that Would be Banned in Many Countries

Let us give thanks for the ones who offer daily prayers for peace, in monasteries and other sacred sites.

Mepkin Abbey Chapel

Let us pray for all the seedlings of peace that we see sprouting out of unlikely ground. 

First February Daffodil at Mepkin Abbey