Today, for the first time, I had to turn off the tv when I heard the news of the captured and dead from the maintenance group. It was just too much and I had to just sit and read scriptures and pray.
While feeling down, I reminded myself of a fact about victories I KNOW is true. Victory comes after praise. Praising, blowing the trumpets, singing. Those examples were not given to us for nothing. And, no matter what the situation looks like, God tells us to rejoice, again I say rejoice. He doesn't say just when things are all happy and good. He says always. His ways are higher than ours, lean not to our own understanding. Praise him, as we pray for the families of the lost, and for those fighting the fight, and rejoice that he has brought prayer warriors together to effect what happens in the war and in our country.