As I consider that wonderful-awful, momentous day 73 years ago, I just thank God that our country faced that fearful crisis when we still had men and women clear-sighted enough to distinguish good from evil; and for that more virtuous time when Americans still believed in transcendent truths and something larger than themselves. Were it not for their faith, courage, conviction and selflessness it’s likely we wouldn’t even be here, still enjoying the freedoms they so valiantly defended.
Looking around at our 21st century, selfish, conceited, amoral, believe-in-nothing generations, it’s painfully obvious that we’re thoroughly incapable of meeting a similar challenge today. And having rejected God, America is not even in a position any longer to appeal to Him again for salvation.
In the waning days of our republic, I’m comforted – and eternally grateful – that my true citizenship is in heaven.
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This is a re-post from June 2014 ~
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The following thoughts on the significance of D-Day is excerpted from an email I received last Friday from The Fellowship of St. James ~
The exquisite beauty of the headstones of Normandy’s military cemeteries together bear witness to a deep awareness in man that warfare lies immovably at the center of the universe: there is warfare in heaven; there is a sword brought by the Son of Man; fire cast on the earth; a battle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces; the battle front between good and evil in each heart. No victory without dying. No gain with sacrifice. Across the centuries, our battlefields should direct our eyes from earth to heaven, even as we respectfully salute the fallen. We hear the call, “Onward, Christian soldiers” to spiritual battle, not earthly. We await the final trumpet, the last command, when Normandy’s fallen together shall rise. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess: Greater love hath no Man than this Jesus, the Lion of Judah, who has conquered.
~ James M. Kushiner ~ Exec. Director,
“The Fellowship of St. James”
