“Fight and you may die. Run and you will live….. at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that…… for one chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!”

I am watching Braveheart for the probably the 12th time and somehow it gets better and better every time I watch it. William Wallace is my hero. Ok well actually Jesus is my hero, but William Wallace makes me think about Jesus.

“Fight and you may die. Run and you will live……at least awhile.” Every time I hear William Wallace say these words there is something in my heart that stirs in me to fight. I want to fight!!!! I do not want to run.

So the question becomes what to fight for in my life. The answer I believe is in William Wallace’s last line…”They may take our lives but they will never take our freedom.” I want to fight for freedom. And not just any kind of freedom, but the kind of freedom that John Paul II talks about “Freedom is not the ability to do whatever, but authentic freedom is the power to do what I ought. “ Will you fight with me for a true authentic freedom? Let us do what we ought and experience a freedom in Jesus Christ. This freedom may have boundaries of morality and purity, but it is greater than any freedom the world could promise me without limits. So let us fight and die in the Risen Christ!!!!

I am going on 8 days without shaving my face. Really for no reason. It is starting to itch me and I am tempted on shaving it, but I wonder if there is a cause worthy of me not shaving. Like Fr. Pat gave up shaving for lent, which is a good cause, but lent is almost over. So comment me back with a reason to let me grow a beard. Like I will not shave till the lettuce workers get better pay or lunch ladies get better working conditions or less homework.