For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
Today, as you celebrate your own freedoms and reflect on the road to liberty, take a minute to to consider what you can do, right now, in this moment to insure that others too can be free.
Imprisonment isn’t solely about being physically limited, but also about the emotional and mental thoughts that bind us. In this way, we are all trapped by something. But we can help each other through that.
A word of encouragement can free someone from their fears. A gesture of love, can free someone from their loneliness. A simple thank you, can free someone from feelings of irrelevance. When we can offer these things to another, we too, become freer to live in our own possibility.
So special…thank you….