May - Remember Our Heroes!



This month at Changing Worldviews we’re celebrating heroes—real life ones, in fact. That said most appreciate the remarkable heroics of our military men and women, but what about their families? For good reason, Marine General Peter Pace honors military children as “patriots and role models for us all." After all, military children are treated like soldiers, subject to a warrior code of honor and service; and to this I add, “Little is much when God is in it.” 

No doubt you’ll agree that training and preparing for war involve significant dangers; consequently, even when there’s no active war, many military children live with the reality of risk to one or both parents. A military child understands and accepts that, in the line of duty, the service person(s) within his family may be killed or maimed. Military psychiatrist Stephen Cozza speculates that wartime death of a parent is even more traumatic and difficult to deal with than typical causes.  

So … what better example than this of John 15:13?: “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends” (NAS). Doing so need not entail the “ultimate sacrifice.” An early Christian living at Joppa, Dorcas was well known for her self-sacrificial, charitable works. She was, in effect, a hero, one whose life was poured out in service.  

Accordingly, military children, once grown, show very strong affinity for careers that entail service to others—e.g., military service, teaching, counseling, police, nursing and foreign-service work. As with them, the “Dorcas Call” is also our charge, especially at such a time as this. 

Be sure, whether in the armed forces, or not, 21^st century Americans are engaged in spiritual warfare, even beyond the ongoing culture war raging against our families and communities. In the words of Benjamin Disraeli, “To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” So then, let’s believe! Having donned our breastplates of righteousness, the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and sword of the Spirit, let’s freely lay down our lives in Christlike service and, as women of virtue, raise “little heroes” who, once grown, will likewise serve as good soldiers, fully equipped to fight “the good fight of faith.”

-Debra Rae

Great Reads & More

                                 

Indivisible                                   Successful Women Think Differently  When the Hurt Runs Keep
by James Robison/Jay Richards  by Valorie Burton                              by Kay Arthur

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"America the Beautiful"                  "The Undefeated"              Films Worth Watching - See here
by Celestial City                            by Steven Bannon             Documentaries on the Issues
Hear Sample & Order here             See Trailer here                 Family Favorite Films