I just read in a book a beautiful prayer given for many warriors who fell and died during a battle that took place to protect their country and their homes. I never thought I would live to see fellow citizens of my country going off to be killed in a foreign country, but such is the world we now live in.
So for all the soldiers (past and present) who gave all they had so that the rest of us can live free, this is for you:
" Merciful Jesu, great of might, whose name is Light and Life, be light and life to these your fallen servants. As you delight in forgiveness, forgive them; do not count their sins, rather consider this their virtue: that when the call came to defend their homeland they took no thought for themselves, but roused courage and went forth to do battle, knowing death awaited them.
Hear me, Lord Jesu, gather our friends to your hall; seat them in your palace in paradise and you will not want for finer companions."
( from the book "Merlin" by Stephen R. Lawhead)
