God, our people, and our world ............. MonkeyLuvr

Are you afraid of the darkness, what it hides? Is there a monster in your closet, under your bed? We learned as children that there is no monster, when our parents banished those hideous images from our minds with love and care. Our loved ones helped us as children to understand that we live in a free nation, that we are able to speak our minds, and banish monsters with the power of our legal system.

It is not always perfect, and injustices will happen, but for the majority of time, our lives are kept free of monsters because we live in a nation that cares. We live in a time of great care, and people do not have to fear, because we have people to call. We have police officers to call when someone is breaking into our home, we have a lawyer to call when our boss is harassing us.

We live and breathe in a nation that would not deliberately hurt its people. Our world is not perfect, never perfect, we have many homeless, hungry, and suffering people. What we do have, however, is a nation that tries to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and soothe the suffering. It may not always be perfect, but we work towards a future that will eliminate so much suffering of our people.

At first, I was upset about the war, until I considered my childhood. When there was a monster in my closet, my Mom and Dad assured me there was not one. They shed light on the closet, and all that was there were clothes and toys. They looked under my bed, and showed me that all that was there were dirty socks I had neglected to bring out. As an adult, I had to bring the police to my aid when I ran out of gas on a highway. As an adult, I had to watch my brother in a hospital due to an angry person who had slammed him into the pavement, and wait to see if he would have brain damage. As an adult, I watched the person who had done that to my brother get justice in our court system.

The parents of Iraq, sadly, cannot tell their children there is no monster. The parents of Iraq cannot tell their children they will be safe each day due to their government and its protection of their people. The parents of Iraq suffer each day knowing their children are at risk every moment if they say, do, or offend anyone of power. The children of Iraq cannot live in peace knowing that their parents can protect them. The people of Iraq are my brothers and sisters, fellow human beings, and I am not glad of this war, never that, but I am glad that we, the United States of America, are working to shed light on those closets and under those beds, so the children of Iraq can know there is no monster anymore.

You may have a different opinion of war, and not like that it is going on, but consider your children, your nieces and nephews, your friends and family. Consider your pain in not being able to protect those loved ones, this is what the people of Iraq feel. I may be against war, but I am not against helping my fellow brothers and sisters. In my life, I depend on God to help me through my days, through my life. Now I depend on Him, not to kill, maim, or hurt, but to shed light on a nation that is darkened by fear. Whatever the motivation that our government has for this war, I may not agree with, but I do have my own motivation for supporting our government in what it does. I support God, I support my fellow human beings, my brothers and sisters, in their liberty and justice, and the light that they will gain from this war.

I may not be right, you may not be right, I know not what God thinks, or how He feels. I do know, however, that God loves His people, and the people of Iraq, the innocent people, are His people, too. I feel agonizing pain at the thought of one of my loved ones over there fighting, and thank God it has not happened as yet, and pray that it will not. You see, I am selfish, I want light to be brought to Iraq, but not at the sacrifice of one of my own. So where I go from here, I do not know. I only know that my faith has to be strong that God will prevail in all things, and that His children, all of His children, will prevail with Him. I do not know the pain of Americans who have loved ones over there at this moment, but I do feel for them.

I suffer for them, but I also try to think, what would have happened if Jesus had run from His day of death upon the cross? If God had been spared the pain of watching His son die, what would have happened? No one would be allowed into the gates of Heaven, and our earth would be without hope. Without hope, we are nothing, we are living in a hell on earth. I hope and pray for everyone fighting, and for those innocents in the midst of it. I pray that everyone will have the strength of God to uphold them when the time comes for them to need it most. In God, all things are possible, and I pray that when the moment comes for me to have strength, I will know, thanks to Jesus and His sacrifice, my loved ones will be better off in the place that they go to. I pray that I and my fellow Americans and fellow brothers and sisters will not have to face that day for a long time to come. Most of all, I pray that this war comes to a swift end, with little casualties.

God help us all, and keep us, that we will, as a world under God, prevail with peace. I do not bring God into this war, I bring God to our people, to every people, that they will have the peace of knowing that death is not the end, but the beginning. We will, as a people, prevail with God, for our ultimate victory is not war, but love. Love for God, innocent people, our children, and our lives.

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