Liberty & Freedom and Personal Responsibility

• The Pearl of Great Price - In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells a parable about a merchant who discovers a pearl of such surpassing beauty and worth that he sells everything he possesses — his entire accumulated estate, the labor of his lifetime — to acquire it. The point of the parable is not about commerce. It is about priority. It is about recognizing that among the many things a person might possess or pursue, there exists a hierarchy of value — and that at the top of that hierarchy sits something so precious that everything else must be measured against it, and found secondary.

  Liberty is that pearl. more...