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WHAT WONDERFUL NEWS!!! WELCOME HOME CHRIS!!!!

Thank you for your very generous words. All glory goes to God in the Highest for all good.

I understand the feelings you are describing as we watch the events unfold in Iraq. We all share in that righteous indignation and just anger that we had to witness such desecration of the bodies of our fellow Americans. Such actions are so difficult for us to understand. I am not sure if we even want to.

I was reading yesterday articles from some of the Iraqi blogs which thoughtful FReepers have posted here and there. One of them pointed out that we are seeing in that action the desensitization that the Iraqi people, including children, have been subjected to for a generation. He/she pointed out that the children are truly not evil, for they dont even know what they have become. Does that not echo the words of our Christ? "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." I pray each day for the grace that I will be granted the ability to forgive, or at least to surrender into His keeping all of these trespasses.

I join you in your prayer, Chong that "His Will be done in His time. I pray that He guides our leader and this nation and brings it back to what it once was, a Nation Under God."

A resounding AMEN to that!