Around this time last year I had just returned home from Biloxi Mississippi from doing a two week relief work for the Salvation Army. My role there was to be part of the prayer team. A year has gone by and I have been Blessed to receive so gifts as a result of this short Mission trip.
Lately all we see in the media is a lot of negative media of unnecessary deaths as a result of war. We see military, marines, and so forth fighting in wars. We never hear about the good things they do. The help they give at times of natural disasters, and disasters like 9/11 caused by mans free will.
When I was in Biloxi I saw all service personal come together in harmony to help serve their fellow man, women, child alike. I saw all religions, Salvationist, Catholics, Anglicans, Mormon, Mennonites, Muslims, etc.. helping to do what ever was needed in order to restore the communities the best way they could.
Lately I have been watching a lot of real life movies such as Flight 93, United 93, World Trade Centre and again I saw all communities working together in harmony instead of fighting each other. It helps to restore faith that their is good in man kind.
The media projects our World as a very negative place to live. All kinds of depressing things happening, sexual abuse, tainting of food, spoiled consumer food products, crime crime and more crime, war war and more war, crooked politicians, missing children and very little focus on the good things in the World.
God is working all around us in in all of these difficult times if we look and watch for it. On Remembrance day I had the opportunity to spend time with one of our local Cambridge Soldiers Chris Brook who has served in Afghanistan. It was an honour to meet him, shake his hand and thank him for serving for our Country. To thank him for the good things he does each day, to share about God and faith, to just speak with him to understand what it is like for him.
So to me Remembrance Day is far more than remembering the veterans, but to remember the soldiers serving right now, remembering the fallen soldiers of this war right now, and to reflect on the other things they do in serving other than in wars.
Thank you for all you do and for the many different ways you serve, protect and help each day. God Bless you and keep you safe.
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