Power to Cope from Freedom to Enslavement – Once again from the files of Power To Cope TV programs in New York, two conversations held long ago were brought out to be shared during the 2010 4^th of July celebration in this country. At the time of the original interview, Charlie DeLeo was the “keeper of the flame” of Madam Liberty. His courage in climbing to the height necessary to keep her clean is amazing to think about—certainly demonstrating he had “power to cope.” But it also takes “Power To Cope” to offer visitors who are strangers a copy of “Steps to Christ”, yet Charlie has done exactly that over and over. Perhaps a visitor might turn down the book from someone else, but they didn’t from Charlie! That man had courage for sure! And something more that seemed almost irresistible to Statue of Liberty visitors in his day.

Ours is a free country, with liberty to be cherished, for sure. But the program concluded with an enormous contrast: Noble Alexander was a man who shared God’s word with other people also. His crime was related to his possession of a Bible. And for that he spent long months—even years—as a Cuban Prison Camp Detainee—unable to stand up, confined with others to a cramped position in a box, without benefit of a minimum of sanitary living conditions. Listening to his account a person cannot grasp either the horror that persons go through at times like that…nor do we realize what the meaning of freedom truly is in our country where religious liberty is almost taken for granted! Surely that is a freedom to be cherished along with the power to cope God gives us all. Just listen and you’ll find reason to be thankful!