Veteran’s Day

Veteran’s Day is a day that inspires reflection.  It is a day of thanksgiving.  It is a day to bestow honor.  It is a day we look beyond ourselves to the larger picture.  We indeed should be thankful that we have been blessed to be in a nation that has provided liberty.  Liberty that has allowed us to worship God.  Liberty that has allowed us to share that love of God we have come to know.

Today we reflect not only on our liberty, but on the price that was paid for that liberty.  I don’t know if anyone has ever express this as simply and eloquently as Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address.  I was recently contemplating his address and his plea that we would continue to be dedicated to this cause so that those who had died would not have died in vain.

As I was considering the dedication of this battle site, my mind traveled to another dedicated site that actually made this one possible.  This dedicated ground represented a larger more encompassing war with eternal consequences.  Drawing a parallel with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address I reworked the Lincoln’s Address to appeal to those who are willing to dedicate themselves to the work that Christ died for on that cruel cross, redemption, love, and life.