My mother was an extreme example of love for my brother and me.  Mom was a teacher.

However, Mom sacrificed her time as a professional educator to raise her two sons.  For the better part of eighteen years, our mother took us to school when it rained, she prepared our food when we came home for lunch, and she checked our homework before we went to bed each night.  Yet, by taking herself out of the classroom, she forfeited any opportunity to advance her career.

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13, NV)

Below are selected verses of the Veteran’s Day prayer I shared at the 2017 Blue Ash Veteran’s Day program. Please join me in praying for all military personnel, past and present, that God’s grace may sustain them throughout the days and years to come.