While I turned the pages of the prayer book, I couldn't help noticing the young men and women in Navy uniforms who were also boarding the flight. "We're headed to Mississippi," one of them told me, "for additional training."
The collect For the Nation (BCP 258) asks God to grant us "forbearance ... to use our liberty in accordance with God's gracious will" without forgetting that God "made all the peoples of the earth for [his] glory."
Let's remember all the young men and women whose self-offering preserves our liberty, and give thanks for the freedoms we enjoy. Let's also remember all of God's people, in whatever part of the world we may find them.
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