The American Dream means different things to different people — for the Founders, it meant a place to live in freedom to enjoy life and pursue their own goals. It still means that for millions of people around the world living under oppressive regimes.
Later, it came to mean other, often more material, aspirations for many Americans who had come to take their liberty for granted — marriage, home ownership, a comfortable retirement.
Honestly, that’s a fairly lame dream in both psychological and spiritual terms. A.H. Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs, for example, puts physiological and safety needs — i.e., material needs — at the bottom of the scale.
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And the Apostle Paul — if you read me very often, you’re probably sick of hearing
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