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\u2018\u2018Hi, Aunt Brenda! Thanks for the care package. Those brownies were delicious.\u201d My nephew John was calling from Iraq, where he\u2019d been deployed with the Army for the last five months as a military police officer.<\/p>\n

I loved hearing his voice, even when the reception was poor. John only got access to the shared satellite phone once or twice a month. Those calls were the only times I knew he was okay. The only times I took a break from worrying about him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad you liked the brownies,\u201d I said. \u201cI…\u201d BOOM! Pop-pop-poppop. BOOM! <\/em>The sounds of explosives and machine-gun fire rang in my ear with crystal clarity. \u201cJohn, what was that? Are you okay?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fine,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is nowhere near where I am. But yeah, that\u2019s pretty much what it sounds like over here all the time. Someone\u2019s always shooting at us. But I have a job to do. I can\u2019t let it get to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

It certainly got to me. All I could think about was the danger around him. I had a job to do too. \u201cI\u2019m praying for you,\u201d I said. \u201cAnd so are a lot of other people. I have called most of the churches in Clay County about getting your name put on their prayer lists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Day and night I asked God to watch over John, but that didn\u2019t stop me from worrying. It was 2004. Soldiers were dying every day in Iraq. \u201cIt means a lot just knowing that you and everyone back there is thinking of me,\u201d John said. \u201cAnd sending brownies, of course.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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I laughed and we said our goodbyes. But even as I hung up the phone I wished there was something more I could do. Time for another care package<\/em>, I thought. I filled a box with more brownies, packages of Kool- Aid, wet wipes, a long letter and some inspirational books. At the post office I asked God to ensure it reached its destination.<\/p>\n

\u201cWere you praying?\u201d a woman behind me in line asked.<\/p>\n

I explained about John. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be fine,\u201d she said. But how could she be so sure?<\/p>\n

Back at home I stared out the window at the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. I never had any children of my own, so all the love I would have given them went to John. When he had visited me in the summer, the two of us rode horses all over the mountain trails. Deep in the forest, surrounded by the beauty of nature, that\u2019s where I felt closest to God\u2014and to John too.<\/p>\n

We talked about his dreams for the future, how he wanted to be a lawyer. But when he told me he was thinking of enlisting in the Army after graduating from college, that he hoped to one day be a JAG officer, I was terrified. \u201cWhat do you think?\u201d he\u2019d asked me.<\/p>\n

I took a deep breath. \u201cI think you should pray about it and go where you feel led,\u201d I said, hoping that God and I were on the same wavelength.<\/p>\n

But it hadn\u2019t turned out that way. Since the day John left for boot camp I\u2019d never really stopped worrying. It only got worse when he deployed to Iraq. His quarters, he\u2019d told me, a squalid former Iraqi jail, were infested with rats. Nothing like the beautiful mountains we loved.<\/p>\n

So much of what he was doing he wasn\u2019t even allowed to tell me. He felt unreachable. Even my prayers seemed somehow to fall short, as garbled as the reception on John\u2019s monthly phone calls.<\/p>\n

That night in my bedroom I read the Bible and prayed for God to shelter John from harm. Like I always did. But in my mind I could still hear the sound of the mortars from that morning\u2019s phone call. My hands trembled as I closed the Bible and got into bed.<\/p>\n

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I tossed and turned for what seemed like forever when…suddenly I was in the desert, nothing but sand for miles around. In the distance I saw a group of men. I walked toward them. They were soldiers, kneeling in a circle. One of them was John. He was holding another soldier in his arms. John was crying. Why am I seeing this?<\/em><\/p>\n

Overhead I heard a sound, like a whisper on the wind. I looked up. A band of angels hovered above. Female angels with wings, in flowing white robes. They encircled the men and danced, their faces joyous, carefree, as if there was no place in the universe they\u2019d rather be.<\/p>\n

One of the angels reached out to me. I hesitated, not sure if I should take her hand, but she beckoned me. There was a warmth to her, an incredible feeling of reassurance that put me at ease.<\/p>\n

I floated up with her, and we danced. Time stood still. I could feel the tension leaving me. In its place there was only love, unconditional love. Our bond had a strength to it that even an army couldn\u2019t break through.<\/p>\n

I lifted my head and…I was back in bed. My eyes wide open. I cried tears of joy, and I thanked God for being ever faithful, for watching over all our soldiers, and especially John\u2014the connection between us stronger than ever.<\/p>\n

A couple weeks later I answered the phone. John\u2019s voice sounded strained. \u201cWe got ambushed the other day,\u201d he said. \u201cSomeone shot three rocket-propelled grenades at us. But no one got hit. No one. The grenades just flew by us.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the months that followed there were more calls like that. Mortars and mines that exploded near John but didn\u2019t harm him. The danger was still ever present.<\/p>\n

Of course I worried, but not like before. It wasn\u2019t that I thought he could never be hurt. But I knew with absolute certainty that he wasn\u2019t alone, that the angels would always be with him.<\/p>\n

John served two tours of duty and finally came home for good in 2006. He never got that law degree. Today he\u2019s in seminary, but that doesn\u2019t mean I pray for him any less.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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