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To quote from Peanuts, "Oh Good Grief"!
For the last several months I was deployed in support of the 3ID. During that time I asked for the GC community to pray for the safety and success of my troops and for wisdom and street smarts for me so that I wouldn't get my guys into anything stupid.
We are now just back in CONUS and I am certainly saying prayers of thanks for getting all my men home alive.
My Dad lives in Virginia and is apparently in the path of the approaching Hurricane. I am praying that he and all who live along the coast are spared what could be serious danger and destruction.
I would welcome anyone who might want to join in and say thanks that all my guys got home more or less in one piece, to continue (as I do) to ask for protection, wisdom, and honorable conduct regarding the soldiers still deployed forward, and that the East coast of America be spared from this storm.
If you find this offensive then so be it, tune out. If you wish to ask God, under any of His Names and descriptions, for protection or to say thanks, then I thank you for your kindness and solidarity. If you do not pray or do not acknowledge a Diety, then just wish us luck when we ask. Why take offense?
I am, incidently, a Roman Catholic, and I do not find it at all offensive when someone asks me to pray for their intentions. I rather consider it a privelege to be asked to add my intercession when I chat with God. After all, that is what prayer is all about, just having a conversation with with "the Boss". One does not have to always ask for something, one can simply say Good Morning, thought I'd like to say hello, or Hay, thanks.
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