Thursday, April 28, 2005

The American Fighting Man

One of our friends from channel, NeedaNap (she has five children, go figure the nick), has a brother who came home from Iraq. He was emotionally greeted by his twin daughters. I was thoroughly impressed by this man's devotion for his country. To fight for freedom is an honorable thing. To leave behind our children, our wives, our parents, our loved ones to fight for freedom around the world is nothing short of Amazing Grace.

It reminds me of the words of Christ in Matt 10:37-39:

"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it."

This man has truly found that the meaning of life is far more than material things. May this be something we all learn.

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2 comments:

Matthew said...

An incredible image, thanks for sharing it.

10:51 PM
Howard Fisher said...

Here is NeedaNaps description of the picture:

My little brother was in Iraq for a year. He's a sole single parent of twin girls. They'd been looking for their daddy for about half an hour watching other families meet up w/ their loved ones and they were getting anxious. One of the girls spotted Peter (my brother) and shouted "Daddyyyy"
At that point, Peter fell to his knees and cried as his little girls ran to him. What beautiful thing!

6:35 AM

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