Celebrate your Freedom!

This flag is stuck in the sand right in front of our condo..July 4th never really meant a whole lot to me...other than it being the day before my birthday!! :) But oh does it have a different meaning for me now! We have so much to be thankful for living in America. This beach trip is pretty special for our family because it is the last family trip we will be able to take before Drew deploys again. He'll leave again sometime in the beginning of the new year for Iraq. After being apart before..we tend to cherish times like this. So today...be thankful that you live in America...free to worship our Lord when and where you please..be thankful that you have clean water to drink and a bed to sleep in....be thankful that you don't have to live in fear of your children hearing and seeing gunfire on a daily basis...but most of all, be thankful that God is bigger than any war that could ever be...