Dear friends,

There are moments in your life when you feel like God is trying to teach you something. As we reflect on the past 16 months, this seems to be one of those times. COVID has changed how we work & study, how we interact with one another, how we travel…the list goes on. As we approach the 4th of July, it strikes us that COVID also has impacted how we think about the word “freedom”.

We, as Americans, treasure freedom. And COVID surely took some of that away, at least for a time. We have been challenged to figure out what our freedom means, what it costs, and how we prioritize it when other factors are at play. Difficult stuff, and it reminds us of how challenging our forefathers must have found it to balance and address all the issues facing a young country as it strove for freedom. So many of the tenets that were laid then are still fundamental to our lives today, and yet we also know that the pursuit of freedom was not a perfect endeavor. We live, we learn and hopefully we keep growing…as a country, as communities, as individuals.

So, as we get ready to celebrate Independence Day it is our hope that we are building a community at Douglass Financial Services that believes in the collective power of remembering and learning from our past, admitting to times that we haven’t lived up to what we aspire to, extending grace, embracing joy, and committing to growing.

Freedom is part of DFS’s mission statement…we hope what we do in some small way allows you to experience more freedom in your lives. And our prayer is that the way in which we go about our business encourages and inspires you to wield that freedom to make your community, country, and world a better place.

Happy 4th everyone!!!!

Darrell & David