Prayer for the Day

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Prayer for Veteran's Day, 1994

O God, help us to remember this day,

All those who have lost their lives
In our nations wars.

Help us to keep the memory of these honored dead

Sacred in our minds and hearts, that their lives

Might never be forgotten among those of us

Who have survived the dangers of war.

We wonder why it is that they have fallen

And we have survived to live another day.

We wonder how best to honor them

And the supreme sacrifice they made.

Make of our lives, O God, a fitting tribute to our

Comrades we remember this day and every day.

We remember their friendship--


Help us to be as loyal and dedicated

To others as they were to us.

We remember their courage--


Help us to have the courage to stand and even
To fall for what is good and perfect in Your eyes. 

We remember their pain and suffering--


Help us to live so that all warring between

Nations will come to an end in our time.

For if our fallen comrades died for anything,

Perhaps they, and the countless millions of

Children, mothers, and fathers who have been

Sacrificed in wars between nations died so that we

who survive them might live for something higher,

Something far more noble than

The chaos and agony that is war.

We have been touched by war.

We who have served know the bitterness,

The pain, and the fear of war.

Veterans know, as perhaps only you can know,

O God, of the futility of war.

We gather today to celebrate not war,
Or the seeming inevitability
Of war in human affairs,
But to celebrate and remember
The lives of our fallen comrades --
That they might not have died in vain.

We join their prayer that we may all live for that
Day when swords will be beaten into plowshares,

And all people will study war no more.

Perhaps, if that day had come years ago,

Our friends could have been a gift of love

To the world today,

Instead of a sacrifice to the world's hatred.

While we live, dedicate our lives to work

As hard for peace among nations,

As some people rush so quickly to war.

Help us to live, as our comrades died,

To bring an end to the warring of

Your children on this earth for ever.

By Bo Gordy-Stith

May God bless and keep our soldiers safe.

Whether you are for or against the war does not matter.

Nobody LOVES war!

But would you rather fight this war on OUR soil or theirs?

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