bring them home

Once a month I lead a devotional service at a local Catholic sponsored retirement community. There's usually around 25 people there with the average age of 85. Today as I invited prayer concerns, one man who has offered literalistic views on scripture, blurted out, "Please bring our boy's home from Iraq!" Then 3-4 women murmurred similar comments about your "young people" and we want them home now. It was like an anti-war rally in the chapel at the retirement community!!! It struck me how much these people were feeling for the young people of our country who were being killed or were in harms way. This is the heart of the W.W. II generation reacting in prayer.