A Prayer for Memorial Day

O God,

Thank you for those men and women whose love for nation, family, and freedom has led them to give their lives in service to our country.

Thank you for those men and women whose love for nation, family, and freedom leads them to work behind the scenes to make and keep peace so that more men and women won’t have to give their lives in service to our country.

Have mercy on those whose greed, hate, narrow-mindedness, and lust for power make it necessary for our men and women to give their lives in service to our country.

Give us hearts that tend toward mercy, reconciliation, understanding, and peace that we might be part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Amen.