Remembering

This is the season of remembering

Remembering the fallen

Remembering those left behind

Remembering the causes and reasons 

Seeking peace through violent means

The greater good

The protection of the innocent 

The desire to serve "King and Country"

It is also time to remember the whole host of saints

Those we've loved and lost

Those we of faith hope to see again

We talk of the other country

The heavenly realm

 Eternity 

Using language to bring comfort

To those who have faith, and those who do not

For when the time comes

We have hope

We have memories

We have each other.

This Remembrance Sunday feels more significant

One hundred years

Ten decades since the start of That War...

The one that would be over by Christmas (it wasn't)

The one to End All Wars (it wasn't) 

The one, where warfare changed... 

The inventiveness of men and women

Ways and means of killing changed

The decline of one on one

The rise of mass destruction...

Leading to ... 

Leading to horror.

This Remembrance Sunday 

As we remember

The lives we knew

The names we see immortalised in stone

Let us pause

Let us reflect

Not only on those who died one hundred years ago

But fifty years ago

Ten years ago

Last year

This year

This week....

Let us remember

Let us never forget

That lives changed, devastated, in the name of peace

Are priceless