Thanks for the prayer. I just read the story and I'm tired and I'm always emotional about our troops, and the tears were coming...then I prayed with you. Prayer is powerful, things happen when believers pray. Pray always.
My son is AF TSGT and is in the states now with new baby and toddler and wife, but I don't know for how much longer. He was in Qatar 6 months out of the first year of his beautiful first baby's life. The families walk a tough road.
Lord, guard and guide the ones who fly, Through the great spaces of the sky; Be with them traversing the air In darkening storms or sunshine fair.
You who keep with tender might The balanced birds in all their flight, Lord of the tempered winds, be near, That, having you, they know no fear.
Control their minds with instinct fit Whene'er adventuring, they quit Firm security of land; Grant steadfast eye and skillful hand.
Aloft in solitudes of space, Uphold them with your saving grace. Oh, God, protect the ones who fly Through lonely ways beneath the sky. Amen.
Mary C.D. Hamilton, 1915, Quebec: L.M., Henry Baker, 1854