A Prayer For Our Troops…
By Tracye Malone Prewitt

Father God, you know those boys and girls, who are fighting for freedom in a hostile country in a hostile terrain, keep them safe. Watch over them with the ferocity of a father for his children because they are. Help this fledgling nation that we are there to free flourish under democracy and let the people there live in the freedom that we Americans take for granted. Let our soldiers be our ambassadors as well show them the way they should conduct themselves and promote America in the best possible light help them to be compassionate to their enemies. And Father, help those who are hurting due to injury, help them heal from all the pains of the mind and body. Help those who have passed over to you hold them in your grace and welcome them home to live with you forever. Help those who are captive to survive... put you between them and harm. Be with those families who are over here waiting for word ... help them keep the faith! Hold the families who have lost loved ones in the last few days in your strong and loving arms! Help them to understand the whys and hows to all the difficult questions they are asking and let them see that their son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister wife, or husband gave their life for the larger good. They gave their life for what we hold dear... the freedoms of this blessed country. And finally Father help our President and this great land go in the direction you would have us to go, and do what you would have us to do. Keep us safe at home, keep the terrorist at bay and keep our Country strong. Thank you God for your son because through him all things are possible. And it is in His name that we pray.... Amen!

Kevin Kelly asked if we could pray for our troops in the next few weeks due the upcoming elections in Iraq... I wrote this prayer for a children's bulletin when the war began in Iraq. There was a great need then as there is today to pray for our troops, our country, our leaders... as well as for Iraq, and her new leaders... May God show all of us the way that leads us home to Him and may He grant us His peace in times of despair and in our troops cases times of danger. He is with us in the darkness all we have to do is call to Him!