Freedom and Force
2nd Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Lina and I returned on Sunday from Washington D.C. The reason we were in our nation's Capitol was to attend her Aunt's funeral in Arlington National Cemetery (she was married to a military man who had passed away about ten years ago). This was the first time I had visited Arlington National Cemetery. The service was quick...the staff at the cemetery approach their duties with machine-like precision. Besides the GPS taking us to the entrance of Ft. Myers, where I had to execute a fairly complex U turn with some other letters thrown in (and) all of the inhabitants of the car having to produce I.D., the funeral was so perfunctory and orderly that it almost seemed like it diminished Lina's Aunt's life in a way. I was almost expect to hear "Next" like some fast food place... While we were in D.C., we visited the Holocaust Museum. In light of the recent tragedy t...