Day 10 of Thankfulness: I know I am a day early but, with the congregation at the second service singing “America the Beautiful” ringing through the church, I just want to say I am thankful for our veterans. They sacrifice so much just so we can feel safe. Thank you to every one of them from every branch of the service no matter when they served! I truly am grateful!
We normally don’t have patriotic things at church just because of the whole separation of church and state thing. But it was requested by a congregant that we honor the veterans and so we did. The veterans were asked to stand up and then the spouses of veterans and then the parents of veterans. I was astonished by the number of people who were standing. Pastor then said a prayer for them and we sang “America the Beautiful” (which in the ELCA hymnal is titled “Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies” – not sure why).
It was a wonderful thing to do for the people who have volunteered to serve our country. It made us appreciate them all the more and, hopefully, they know how grateful we are.
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