pray for the General ... and all our comrades (... down to me)

http://armyrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/09/colonel-bo-brekke-promoted-to-glory.html

We heard about this while at officers' meetings at camp this weekend. The CS called our RC, and then the CS joined us, as planned, later in the evening.

As Col. Brekke was Norwegian, he was one of the rising Salvation Army leaders in the Nordic countries. There is every possibility that he would have been our TC some day (here in the F&E Territory).

While of course we need to remember in prayer his family and our fellow Salvationists in Pakistan, I feel especially burdened for the General. Please pray that God would grant special strength and grace to General Clifton!

It was pretty hard to sleep last night, with my mind so focused on this as well as Human Trafficking. It's easy to throw around SA words like war, soldier, warrior, fight -- even martyr at times. But these are two instances (the Colonel's murder and the evil of human trafficking) that really remind us that this is a real war and not just metaphorical!

THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE

FORGIVE US ... AS WE FORGIVE

DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Amen.