A Personal Reflection on July 4th:

Every nation has moments it chooses to remember.

Some celebrate independence. Others remember liberation, unification, peace, or the end of conflict. Whatever the occasion, these moments invite us to reflect on what we have inherited, what unfinished work remains, and what some people are still fighting for even today.

As July 4th approaches in the USA, I find myself returning to a line from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in 1863:

“It is for us the living… to be dedicated here to the unfinished work…”

Those words have stayed with me for years.