Memorial Day
O beautiful for heroes proved / In liberating strife / Who more than self their country loved / and mercy more than life. (Katharine Lee Bates: America the Beautiful)
The words of the third stanza of this popular patriotic song are particularly appropriate on this day when we remember the many who gave their lives for our freedom. We sorrow over family members and friends, and we honor all who have given their lives in the defense of our country. Thank God for patriotic Americans and for the liberty they fought to provide.
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (John 15:13)