How
comfortable do you feel about everything you've ever concealed being
disclosed? How would you live your life differently if you wanted to
live it without worrying what was disclosed? (Serendipity Bible
10th anniversary edition page 1398).
In
that day the wolf and the lamb will live together;
the
leopard will lie down with the baby goat.
The
calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion,
and
a little child will lead them all.
(Isaiah
11:6 NLT)
Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
(Amendment 1 US Constitution)
The
American birthright of freedom of speech has awesome implications.
Think of it for a moment – just think of it – a world without
censors. Are any of us really ready for this awesome and priceless
gift? I often think of the Scripture passage that says that in the
end a little child will lead them. And the outstanding characteristic
of little children is their lack of filters. Can we tough adults
really endure simple honesty, simple truth – do we have the courage
even the indomitable spirit to let chips fall where they may? I wish
all of us to contemplate for a moment that freedom. What if we were
not afraid of our concealments, but because human experience was so
universally honest there were no hidden shames – no craven deceits
– for all were fully aware of shared human vulnerabilities and thus
were no longer insidiously controlled by them? Freedom of speech may
well end up being for humanity in time when all implications are
fully expressed and realized the very key to unimagined progress in
human affairs. I think the greatest gift of our founding fathers not
only to America but to everyone was this shining, uplifted challenge
to simply be honest with others and true to oneself. There are no
fields of endeavor and no landscapes of the psyche that in the end
will be left untouched by the First Amendment.
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