Each of you must pick up one stone and carry it out on your shoulder - twelve stones in all... We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, 'What do these stones mean?' Then you can tell them... Joshua 4:5-7 NLT We need reminders. Concrete things that remind us. Cairns of stones. Bread and juice. Scars. Remind us of who God is, how He loves, our journey. Today we look at concrete reminders, cenotaph's, wreaths. Memorials that tell the story. Because we forget. We forget the horror of war, the evil in our hearts that allows it, sometimes even desires it. Martin Luther King Jr said; "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." Today as we remember those who gave their lives for our freedom, don't lose sight of that o...
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