Another Soldier's Prayer

From. within I felt the desire to pray, but the heat of battle turned
me away, even so 1 felt the Lord of heaven had His hand on me and was
calling me to a higher calling, one for now 1 did not understand_
The day did come when that war came to an end,
I returned home to a hero's welcome,
but my soul was not yet at peace.
I struggled long to cope with the carnage of that war and what it had
done to me, from alcohol and drugs 1 found no, relief.

This was a different war, this was a war for my soul, finally 1 gave
up and turned to the Lord of heaven once more and asked Him to come
into my life, this time i truly meant it.

Behold, true to His word Almighty God took me by the hand and lead me
to the alter of forgiveness, there I was cleansed of all the thoughts
and feelings that had been a barrier between Him and me.
I now stand in a pulpit among the sheep and the wolves proclaiming
the power of our Almighty God, the one who had turned a killing
machine into a saint.

One worthy of the love of God, one willing to stand in the gap and
proclaim the word of the Lord of the universe, my God and your God,
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. A-men

@2006 Merrill Phillips