One of my adult sons texted me last Monday asking me if I was going to see Sound of Freedom. I replied with “Oh you mean Cries of Freedom? We saw that on Saturday.” I thought he had mixed up the title, since he knows I love to go see Cries of Freedom every year around Independence Day.
Cries of Freedom is one of my Independence Day “must-do” traditions. I’d rather give up eating hot dogs and hamburgers on the summer holiday, which I’ve done, when I was on my 70 pound weight-loss journey, eating a special diet, than give up watching Cries of Freedom, which I’ve also done. When we lived in AZ I had to give up watching it in person and only watch it on YouTube. Missing the real thing made me almost cry every year! This is our third summer back in UT so I’ve been watching it annually again. It’s so good to be back in the land where I can drive to see Cries of Freedom every year! It never fails to move me to tears.
We also attend the festival in the park near the showing of Cries of Freedom, called Colonial Days. I just love it all! All these pictures here are from that. We spent parts of two days there because I wanted to take in as much as I could. It’s like some people carve out a bit of Colonial Williamsburg VA and transplant it to Orem UT every summer for a few days. We did that on Saturday and Monday.
On Sunday my husband and I attended the Freedom Festival Patriotic Service. I like to stretch out holidays as much as I can (Christmas being king of course, with Easter second) so I’m thrilled I could do that this again with Independence Day.
Anyway, it turns out my son was talking about the new movie, The Sound of Freedom, based on Timothy Ballard’s story of fighting human trafficking.
I haven’t watched it yet and don’t know if I will since I avoid PG-13 movies as even movies like Edward Scissorhands give me nightmares. That’s the last PG-13 movie I saw. My sister-in-law and brother-in-law, however, saw it yesterday on opening day and loved it.
Here’s a short review of the movie. Then below is a video from Angel Studios, the distributor, about the premiere.
I like that at the end of the review the two guys say that yes it’s true, as Timothy says in the movie, that “God’s children are not for sale.” Where do we get this truth? From the Bible, which is part of the Judeo-Christian faith tradition. I’m so grateful for this faith tradition. I’m grateful for absolute truth from God, found in the Bible, (The Old Testament here, and New Testament here) and other scriptures I believe in, that teach us who we are, children of God. These scriptures teach us where we came from and what our destiny can be. It was people believing in the Bible that abolished slavery in the U.S. It is people believing in God and his word now that will abolish human trafficking, if enough of us do so and work on this faith.
Below is a new interview of the actor who played Timothy Ballard, Jim Caviezel, along with Timothy Ballard himself, with Jordan Peterson.
(Just in case anyone is wondering, For Independence Day half of us went to the parade then we went to have a picnic with my parents up in the mountains. It was about an hour drive each way. I made the drive more patriotic for all of us by listening to some of Stephen Pratt’s stuff at libertyandlearning.com, on the way there. Then on the way home I quizzed my husband and myself with trivia cards about America from an All-American Trivial Pursuit game I picked up while thrifting years ago for $3. Then we listened to Jim Weiss’ story of Thomas Jefferson’s America. It’s soooo good!)
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