By Dr. Jimmy Braswell
Chaplain, Home Hospice of Odessa
November is a month of celebration for our Veterans and Thanksgiving for our lives. It is a month to celebrate and be thankful for the life God has given us.
For with all the trouble, hardships and suffering of our lives we can be thankful for the life God has given each of us. It is the one we were intended to have, even with all the difficulty – our life has a meaning and purpose way beyond what we can see or perceive.
Veteran’s Day is the same kind of gratitude to be grateful for every soldier, foreign and domestic. World Wars and conflicts were not won and goals accomplished by only a few noted heroes but by all the soldiers … every one. Each played a solitary part of a greater whole of defending our nation and democracy.
All the jobs, every soldier’s duty was a part of a greater sequence of a task to be done, by doing his job, his duty, he or she became a part of a greater sequence of events to win the war and lead our nation into the future.
There is a purpose for all things. Our private lives and the public lives of veterans all have a specific purpose and part of a greater whole. We are to love and be grateful for our lives and the life of every veteran who has served.
