Tim McGraw- "If You're Reading This"
My husband shared this video with me last night, and it made me cry. It made me cry for all those families that won't see their sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers and mothers come home, because they've gone Home. I wanted to take a moment and honor those souls that fight for our freedoms.
Now, I have a lot of feelings about war. I would prefer to pretend it didn't exist, honestly. I would prefer to forget that we're in the midst of one. I don't watch the news, and generally steer clear of anything that might be remotely negative. I'm a bit of an ostrich that way. (You know, sticking my head in the sand.) My eldest daughter told me a couple years ago that she wanted to be in the armed forces and I became sick with dread! How much more so must those other mothers and wives feel when their family members join. And yet they are proud of what they are doing. I may not like to think about it, but I am proud of them too.
We have a unique opportunity here in the U.S., and that is to be part of a democracy unlike any other. One of the most important to me is our religious freedoms that we so often take for granted. But that freedom has a price. A VERY HIGH price! That is the lives of our sons and daughters and the lives of our enemy's sons and daughters. The price is human life. Not a price I like the idea of paying. Should the time come when I must though, I would like to think that someone would take the time to honor my family members as well. So for all of you that pay that price for me, I honor you today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and the depths of my soul. You are appreciated and prayed for.
--Lord, I ask your blessing on our troops and their families. I pray for peace in the hearts of those that have lost loved ones. I thank You that You welcome them home, those that believe in You. I thank you that I live in a country that allows me to worship You without the cost of prison or death. I thank you for those people that are willing to sacrifice their lives to allow me to continue to have that freedom. I pray all these things in Jesus' Holy Name. Amen.
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Dear Readers: For the record, I am a pacifist. I do not believe in war. However, I also do not believe in condemning those that go to war in my stead. I also do not force my beliefs upon anyone else. I pray that you can take a moment to honor those that are fighting for our freedoms, because they certainly aren't over there (wherever "there" happens to be) because they like war themselves. No one likes war. No one likes paying the price. But someone has to do it. So for this reason, I honor those that have lost loved ones, so that I may choose to be a pacifist.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you yet this is the contradiction in the world -- we have to fight and shed blood in order that there may be peace.
ReplyDeleteBeing a reserve in the citizen army we have here in Singapore (all males citizens 18 years old and above have to serve 2 years of mandatory service in the Armed Forces and another 10 years in the reserves), I dread war and the day, if ever it shall come, that I have to go to war.
If that made you cry, this one did it for me. It's a video on the Israeli losses during the last war in Lebanon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVqwiUtQENg
God bless, and Shabbat Shalom.
Isaiah
Obviously, I did not understand the words, but that was a powerful video! Thank you for sharing it Isaiah (aka Sicarii.) God bless and Shalom to you as well.
ReplyDeleteNeither did I, but sometimes the emotion expressed in the song and the pictures are enough, lol!
ReplyDeleteI am a softie! :-P
Shabbat Shalom.