Today is Memorial Day a day that we remember that the cost of freedom is high, the cost of war is perennial pain and loss very little gain and joy. We celebrate victories but still mourn the losses. I recall my dad thinking about his buddies who never came back from storming the beeches of Normandy. He was in the third wave while friends were in the first wave all died. We welcome soldiers home from war. Some soldiers never come home.
Memorial Day is not a victory parade it is an "honoring of the losses and pain of war". A remembrance that there is a price tag for freedom.
Memorial Day began in response to the Civil War that ravaged our nation. Abraham Lincoln said it was the worst of times and the best of times for the nation. In his second Inaugural Address he stated:.
With malice toward none, with charity (love) for ALL, with firmness in the right as God gives us to know the right,
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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