“His arm encircles me, and mine, and all”
The reach of divine Love knows no boundaries.
Several years ago, my wife and I had the opportunity to visit Normandy, France, and explore the five D-Day beaches where the Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944. Our excursion included visits to three war cemeteries. What struck me at the British Bayeux War Cemetery was that each headstone bore a personal inscription chosen by the soldier’s family, many of them simple messages of love and remembrance.
Standing among the 4,648 headstones there and having seen the graves of more than 35,000 soldiers across the three cemeteries, I suddenly felt a deep wave of grief. The sheer magnitude of all those deaths overwhelmed my thoughts, and a heavy, dark feeling took hold of me.
I prayed for a firmer grasp of the spiritual fact that the picture of lives cut short by the misery of war was not the true story.
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