Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy a British Anglican minister who volunteered to be a chaplain on the Western Front durring the First World War, wrote to his son:
“The first prayer I want my son to learn to say for me is not 'God keep Daddy safe' but 'God make Daddy brave, and if he has hard things to do, make him strong to do them.' Life and death don't matter my son. Right and wrong do. Daddy dead is daddy still, but Daddy dishonored before God is something awful, too bad for words. I suppose you'd like to put in a bit about safety too, old chap, and Mother would. Well, put it in, but afterwards, always afterwards, because it really does not matter near so much. Every man, woman and child should be taught to put first things first in prayer, both in peace and war, and that, I believe, is where we have failed.”
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