April 3, 33A.D. was what Jesus might have considered a "bad day at the office." We call it Good Friday these days. Right now I'm listening to the soundtrack from "We Were Soldiers." You can get it on YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usebvLzCph4]To fallen soldiers let us sing,
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing,
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord
No more weeping,
No more fight,
No friends bleeding through the night,
Just Divine embrace,
Eternal light,
In the Mansions of the Lord
Where no mothers cry
And no children weep,
We shall stand and guard
Though the angels sleep,
Oh, through the ages let us keep
The Mansions of the Lord.
This hymn was written by Randall Wallace in 2002 for the movie "We Were Soldiers," according to Widipedia's article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Wallace]. He also has, says the same article, acknowledged in interviews his deep commitment to Christianity. Turns out he also wrote and directed the movie and was influenced by his Duke Seminary past in his approach to all the movies he works on...salt and light in our spoiled dark society, I would say.
Well, I've seen too many soldiers of the Lord severely wounded spiritually in the last 29 years, two I can think of in particular, so this song tends to choke me up. The good news is that our Captain of the Host chose to fall on that day that brought forth rain and an earthquake in Jerusalem in order that the rest of us can have a place in The Mansions of the Lord.
I wonder if we get to choose paint colors for our rooms?
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