{"id":2679,"date":"2008-10-21T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/10\/bring-him-home-a-prayer-for-beloved-and-his-family.html"},"modified":"2008-10-21T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T11:32:00","slug":"bring-him-home-a-prayer-for-beloved-and-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/10\/bring-him-home-a-prayer-for-beloved-and-his-family.html","title":{"rendered":"Bring him home: a prayer for “Beloved and his family”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anchoress has just posted a prayer request<\/a> for a soldier who has been seriously wounded. <\/p>\n

The A writes: <\/p>\n

I cannot tell you his name – but if you could storm heaven for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beloved and his family\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at this time – for miracles if God wills them, for peace and consolation if not. The need is great. Please keep these people \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in your pockets,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d so to speak. Perhaps offer something up for their behalf, keeping this in mind: Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking 14 in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6(Colossians 1:24)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last weekend, my wife and I unexpectedly got free tickets to a concert performance by the great Colm Wilkinson, who created the role of Jean Valjean in the original production of Les Miserables<\/i>. For his encore, he performed the song that has become his signature. <\/p>\n

It was written for Wilkinson and that singular voice, and I offer it here, at this moment, as a kind of prayer. <\/p>\n

Whatever may happen, God, bring him home. <\/p>\n

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