Please pause today to remember all those past and present who have fought for our country and freedom.
For Those Who Serve
We ask you, dear Lord
to hold our men and women
in you loving hands
As they travel far from home,
keep them safe in other lands.
They are admired, cherished
and loved, we respectfully say.
Their families, giving and enduring,
so we can live the American way.
We bow our heads,
honor them in prayer,
and ask that You keep them,
Lord, in Your divine care.
For the gift of freedom
is ours today, thanks to
these brave Americans.
~ Catherine Galasso-Vigorito
Beloved, Inmost Heart of every heart,
do not Let our human hearts be broken
by our merely mortal suffering here -
but make our mortal human hearts break - free
to an unconditional love of You,
that we may, Thus, love all living beings
with Love's own True, and Truly broken, Heart.
~ Adi Da Samraj
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