March 2, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, March 2. Welcome to my favorite month! March has St. Patrick’s Day, the first day of Spring, and this year it features Palm Sunday. Ok, it also has the bad time change - the one where we lose an hour of sleep - but no month is perfect. March, at least here in Texas, brings wildflowers and hummingbirds and warm breezes. And, speaking of Texas, March also brings Independence Day - today!
On March 2, 1836, a group of 28 men, meeting in a place called Washington on the Brazos, signed a document that declared Texas to be free and independent. It mirrored the moment that occurred 60 years earlier in Philadelphia, when America was begun. And just like the American Revolution, the declaration wasn’t the end of the struggle, but was just the beginning. Four days after Washington on the Brazos, the Alamo fell, and many brave men fell with it - men who, as the song goes, “more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life”.
Human beings have been struggling for independence, for freedom, throughout human history. It is a struggle, a desire, that seems to be born within each of us. Here’s what the scriptures have to say about this need.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17 - The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- John 8:35 - If the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed.
- Galatians 5:13 - You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.
- Ephesians 3:12 - in Him, and through faith in Him, we may approach God with freedom.
- Galatians 5:1 - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
