For All the Saints-a Memorial Day poem/thought

For All the Saints-a Memorial Day poem/thought

For all the Saints who from their labors rest

That in thy name oh Jesus, they be ever blest.

Your soldiers Lord they lived and died

protecting those from every side

Their lives they gave oh God most high

keeping watch by day and night

Your people first they were and

then to you they gave their souls

as they fought the fight from coast to coast

to bring again the peace of earth

to which creation was once had known.

For all your saints who from their labor rest

may we who live today give honor to their names.

May we who live today remember all their faces

and say their names so in our pause this day

we may know their lives were not in vain.

For all your saints who from their labors rest

soldiers of the world, not just of this place,

have given to those who trusted them

to do the work to end the strife of pain and hate,

to bring a place where flowers grow

and love is stronger than the foe.

Help us oh God not to forget those who went before

and fought for all you taught to love and honor and obey

the kingdom rules given on a mountain so far away;

To love the stranger, widow, orphan and to walk in God’s ways.

And so today in honor of all the saints who from their labors rest

we will your people be and never to forget

we too shall lift our hearts and brave we shall be

and with the force of love, peace will cover the land and sea.

And creation in harmony will find its rest indeed.