Where Did God Go in Afghanistan?
11.07.2010 at 09:23pm
Michael Cummings, friend of SWJ and co-blogger of On Violence, recently published a noteworthy essay in the New York Times’s “At War” series entitled Where Did God Go in Afghanistan?
Ten thousand feet over Fort Benning, Ga., and I was praying for my life. Literally. I was about to jump out of a C-130 airplane to earn my Airborne “wings.” I desperately wanted my chute to open. Under my breath, I whispered Isaiah 40:31: “but those who hope in the LORD/will renew their strength./They will soar on wings like eagles.” At service the day before, the minister had handed out bookmarks inscribed with that passage.
In that plane, I imagined myself sprouting wings and floating safely to the ground.
