Holly's husband, SFC Charles B. May, was deployed 25 January 2005 to Iraq for one year. I ask that we add him to our prayers, that we ask others to lift him in prayer too, and that we add his name to the prayer lists of the churches we attend.
In my reply to her I noted that I am adding her and her son Logan to our prayer list too. We all know how much that means, and we know the conditions our troops are facing in Iraq.
Thanks for letting me share Holly's request!
We are more than pleased and honored to add SFC Charles B. May and his wife Holly to our prayer list, HiJinx!
MERCIFUL FATHER IN HEAVEN,
We place before you not only the name, but the very life of SFC Charles B May, and Holly, his wife, who is holding vigil for him.
Father, grant Charles the gifts of courage, your protection, wisdom, discipline, health, an expansion as a witness for others the love he has of service, as well as your abundant mercy in all things. Let the fires of freedom waft before him as a harbinger of the liberation to come whenever he encounters Iraqi people. Wrap him in one of our prayer blankets woven of all the aformentioned qualities of your heart and our prayers. Assign a team of angels to him to protect and guide him while he is in harm's way.
We ask that you will surround Holly with comfort, courage, wisdom, and all the similar qualities we asked for Charles, but in measures which will equip her in her role of vigil holder. Increase the faith and closeness to your heart of this pair who are serving our nation so generously. Let each of them reach out to you and be able to tangibly feel and discern your divine Presence in their world. Let that which we have prayed for Charles and Holly also be granted to all who are in harm's way this day along with all those who are joined with them in the spiritual aspects of this fight.
We are grateful, Father for this couple and the many thousands like them who have interrupted their lives to serve not only our nation, but your own Purposes which we believe to be the furtherance of Freedom on this planet and the protection of this nation which is its cradle. Thank you for sending us such valiant souls who are willing to lay their lives down for their brothers. Help us each to do our part to support and cherish them, not only during these immediate difficult days, but also in days and years to come when some of these may yet be paying and the rest of us have gone on with our lives. Keep us mindful of the respect and debt we owe these, our very greatest treasure.
Let all be done only according to your magnificent and perfect Will.
Amen