The stars and stripes ...
... in our family, always good food ...
... and some fireworks and sparklers for good measure.
My great home state has another tradition you might've heard of ...
It's never been something on my personal bucket list, but I marked it off anyway and ran it this morning. After we braved the portable restrooms and snuck into a corral together (is it so terrible to want to run together?), it was a fun time spent (as 6.2-mile runs go) with family and 62,000 of my closest friends.
Amidst all the festivities, though, it's never lost on me that our freedom here came at a great cost to our forefathers, and that men and women today continue the valiant fight to protect our liberty.
May we never take our freedom for granted, nor forget the One who has blessed our nation for such a time as this.
Your love divine has led us in the past;
In this free land by you our lot is cast;
Oh, be our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay;
Your Word our law, your paths our chosen way.
-- "God of Our Fathers" by Daniel C. Roberts
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