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PRAYER REQUEST!!

Truthandlogic has requested that our Prayer Warriors put Marine (22) from OR, Bret Taylor and his folks Mike & Karen & brother Michael on our prayer list.

We are honored and pleased to do so, T&L.

For those who may have missed it, because I somehow neglected to put out a general ping on it, please read up in post 83 for a response prayer for the request submitted by HiJinx for Charles May and wife Holly.

Beloved Father in Heaven,

Today is certainly the day the Lord has made! You have taken the sacrifices of our noble young men and women and have wrought good things. The joy of liberation and the opportunity to have a voice in the affairs of their country by the Iraqis recently have inspired all of us. Part of that inspiration is the knowledge that their freedom is not free, but worth the price. Our young men and women have afforded this miracle through their blood and your own intervention and moving finger.

We place before you another marine and those who hold vigil for him. We ask the you will wrap in a swaddling blanket of your light and love and our prayers Bret Taylor and his family and all who hold vigil for him. LEt this blanket be composed of all the blessings and support that he will need at any moment. Let him be granted the gifts of strength, protection, courage, wisdom, love, honor, strength in service, healing, and mercy. Let there be a team of angels with him at all times. Help him to fulfill his vows of service in accordance to his own highest standards.

Surround Mike & Karen & brother Michael and all his friends left at home with abundant faith, and your constant Presence with them during the worrisome times. Help them to have all the strength and courage they require in order to fulfill their vigil for him.

Father, we continue to thank you for blessing this nation with such heroes. They are our greatest treasure and we pledge in our own vigil for them that we do not nor shall we ever take their sacrifice for granted. It is the most precious gift imaginable. Our Lord has told us that there is no greater gift than that a man should lay his life down for his friend. Our young men and women have been doing just that for this nation for 2 centuries. And along the way of doing that, they have liberated millions. This generation of troops have followed in those footsteps and we see the joy of the Afghanis and the Iraqis standing in line on their election days. We see the Iraqis waving their inked fingers as a mark of pride and defiance. For all of this we give you the glory and the praise and thanksgiving for sending us these magnificent young men and women who are your instruments of liberation.

Father, we ask that you will seal these victories. Do not let that which has been bought with blood be frittered away by those who have not paid nor honor that price. Grant our people the Vision and the steadfastness to stand by that Vision and stand by those who are our leaders who are the standard-bearers for that Vision. Let our leaders have more than a passing glimpse of that Vision. Let those who do not see be minimized and that their actions have not the power to dissuade our republic from walking in the Way in which we must go.

Father, we ask that you will take our prayers and submit them to the fires of your love and perfect Will. Let all be done according to only your own Will and timing. As it pleases you, bring all our young heroes home to their families. Let those of us holding vigil hear your voice of instruction so we may be with our heroes at a spiritual level at all times. Let our prayers, by your Grace, be a lever for the bringing about of the protection of these heroes and for bringing them home safely. We trust you and love you and glorify your Name in all the world.

In the Name of the One Sent, our Lord and Savior,
Amen