This being Veterans Day, it occurred to me to offer a prayer. Politics aside, the fact is that many men and women have participated in the horrors of combat, and many have suffered in both obvious and not so obvious ways as a result of this participation. I've had the privilege of working with some of these people as their therapist, helping them, along with others who have helped them, to overcome the traumas of war. Sometime decades after the fact. On the level of human wellbeing, there are truly no winners in war.
So I'd like to remember these folks today, and offer a prayer for their happiness and peace. For so many of them, the simple joys, satisfactions and pleasures of every day life that many of us take for granted, are distant and elusive. The burdens they carry, for any number of varying reasons, are at times heavy indeed. Whatever one's political views, I'd like to relate with these people as just people. Brothers and sisters, in need of a genuinely helping hand.
So to you veterans, especially, but by God's grace not only, on this day, may your burdens be light; may your spirits be lifted;, may your wounds be healed; may you experience the peace and the rest you deserve.
