5: Freedom of Religion

It's the first Sunday of this year-long effort, and therefore the first Sabbath for many people. I'm thankful that Americans are free to worship as they chose to worship or chose not to worship - and that as a constitutional guarantee the state does not interfere in citizens' private-space worship decisions. So we're back to the Bill of Rights, and in this case the First Amendment to the US Constitution:

 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Once again, it's easy to look around the world and see countless examples of people without the freedom to choose how to understand their own relationship with God. I'm thankful that American Constitutional Guarantees and American Government support citizens' rights to understand the divine and the metaphysical as they see fit.