
A prayer for Memorial Day
A Memorial Day prayer from the Religious Imagineer, Jim Friedrich

A Memorial Day prayer from the Religious Imagineer, Jim Friedrich

How will you choose to observe Memorial Day today? Will you celebrate your liberties with shopping and barbecues? Will you visit the grave of someone who died serving our country? Will you remember by spending time with a survivor, witnessing to their time in combat and grieving with them over the loss of comrades and friends?

“I thought I had a handle on suffering. I thought I had a handle on understanding the sovereignty of God. I didn’t know crap” – former military chaplain Matthew Williams.

Of all the civic holidays on our U.S. calendar, Memorial Day may come closest to a deep embrace of spiritual values.

That war – General Ashby’s war, my great-great-great-grandmother’s war – seems very far away in time, difficult to comprehend, and yet also very near.


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Memorial Day is a time to honor those who have died fighting in our nation’s wars. It is also a time to reflect on where