As crude as it sounds, it’s true.  The old phrase comes to my mind this morning as I lift my coffee cup. Putting it less crudely, Opinions are like “bottoms” we all have one. The wonderful thing about it is God created us with both.

We have the freedom to voice our opinion. We also have the freedom to choose who’s opinion we listen to. We also have the freedom to keep our opinions to ourselves, but seldom have the discipline to do so.

Parents, teachers, pastors, police officers, government officials and other positions of authority have the very challenging position of leading by facts without opinion. Our responsibility and freedom is to research, gather as many facts, learn as much as we can and to respect those in authority. We have the freedom to not jump to conclusions.  We have the freedom to react to the good or bad actions of others. What and how we use our freedom and our choice’s affect not only us but every one around us.

What do you do with your freedom?