Reflections of the day

“The stars in the sky illuminate below,
The light is the sign that love will guide you home.
The stars in the sky illuminate below,
If the world were to die, the light would guide you.”

Today, the priest was in the middle of his sermon, explaining the epiphany of Christ, when the wise men finally made it to Jesus, and presented the gifts to him. During this he started to talk about the Apollo 11 mission, when the men returned back from the moon, and then took a subsequent trip around the world for various meet and greets. One of the meetings he spoke about in detail was the meeting at the Vatican. While at the Vatican, the three astronauts received three intricate porcelain statues, each one depicting each of the three wise men. The pope then explained to them, that like the original wise men, they also traveled and found their way home by the stars above.

We soldiers have a similar task, we’ve been sent to perform a task that not many people would ever endure. We are here for peace building, rebuilding infrastructure and allowing people and a nation, freedoms that we have been granted from birth. I believe we are doing good work here, and that our mission is a beautiful one. Although as an aviation unit, we may not have a direct influence in the actual peace building exercise, we are just as integral a part of the mission.

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~ by SSG RPM on January 6, 2008.