Missing You ~ Anchored In Him - Christmas 2003



 


This page is dedicated to our loved ones that are serving our great nation this Christmas. A special thanks to the soldiers and their families at Ft. Bliss, TX. We pray daily for our Armed Forces and their families. Not only are we thankful for the sacrifices that you and your families so willingly endure; we SALUTE you. Thank you so much for what you do. We are proud of your service to our great nation! This poem was sent to us from some one that found it on the internet. It says it very well of our Armed Forces. If you know the author of this poem please let us know so we can give this person the credit. Again thank you so much for your service, God Bless you and your family ! ! ! ! Remember the price of freedom is not cheap, if anyone thinks it is go to a cemetery and look at one of the fallen heroes age from any war ! ! ! !

This was forwarded from a Soldier

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,

I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.

My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,

my daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,

transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree, I believe,

completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,

secure and surrounded by love I would sleep

in perfect contentment, or so it would seem.

So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,

but I opened my eye when it tickled my ear.

Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,

then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,

and I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,

a lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old

perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.

Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,

standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear

"come in this moment, it's freezing out here!

Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,

you should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,

away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts,

to the window that danced with a warm fire's light

then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,

I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night"

"its my duty to stand at the front of the line,

that separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,

I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"

then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."

"My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam

and now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while,

but my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile."

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,

the red white and blue . . . an American flag.

"I can live through the cold and the being alone,

away from my family, my house and my home,

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,

I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat,

I can carry the weight of killing another

or lay down my life with my sisters and brothers

who stand at the front against any and all,

to insure for all time that this flag will not fall."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright

your family is waiting and I'll be all right."

"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,

give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?

It seems all too little for all that you've done,

for being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,

"just tell us you love us, and never forget

to fight for our rights back at home while we're gone.

To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,

to know you remember we fought and we bled

is payment enough, and with that we will trust.

That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

All that I am and have I owe to Jesus ! ! !





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I'll Be Home For Christmas
Connie Francis
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