I’m thankful for the soldiers who are away from home and loved ones right now helping to keep us safe. Guardian angels are real. But soldiers aren’t angels.
And I’m thankful to all the great men and women who gave up their lives for our freedom and now live in the realm of angels, so to speak. But they didn’t turn into angels. Despite what cartoons and movies, for decades, have shown to the contrary.
Actual guardian angels are real and created by God.
And ironically many of those angels will be soldiers here on earth one day. At least for a while. And they’ll be fighting for freedom, life, liberty, and the pursuit of holiness.
I pondered these this sort of symmetrical situation and shared some rhyme and reason about…
Soldiers, Angels
Soldiers, angels, walkin’ through the green grass
Underneath the blue skies.
Singin’ soft lullabies,
And they carry baubles made of brass.
Soldiers, angels, hikin’ up the high road
Lookin’ for the heart light
Gotta make it start right
Now because they have a heavy load.
Soldiers, angels, have left us a tutorial
On how to skip mistakes
Like everybody makes…
Then we build a sad memorial.
Soldiers, angels…one becomes the other
Takin’ on a new role
And up goes the death toll.
Why can’t every man just love his brother?
Soldiers, angels…we can’t live without them
Paying for our error
Till God stops this terror…
And that’s why I wrote this poem about them. © 2013 TF
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