You say you are free;
Yet you are bound
To pleasure,
To hate,
To the opinions of your peers.
I say I am bound;
Yet I am free
For service,
For love,
For submission to the will of my God.
And in this my bound liberty,
I am far more free
Than you are
In your liberated bondage.
Free Indeed. Krislyn Shank (age 17) Maryland. The Heartbeat of The Remnant, July/August 2010 · Volume 16 · Number 4. Source pages 22.
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