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Inspiration
a stable sinus rhythm. Some hours enough to put me in jail and then
later I began to work on his records, to put me out of the Army. What
“'God is love' is
the commander had not counted
and I looked at his name and unit on was my strong faith in God “
that he was in. I recognized who he
was, that this was the first sergeant and my willingness to stand for written upon every
of the headquarters unit to which Him no matter what. After the first
I was assigned in the 25th infantry sergeant had told me this and how
division at Schofield barracks Army the division high command tried opening bud, upon
base. Now the first sergeant never to intimidate me and failed, I then
did anything against me while I was understood that God had put me in every spire of
in headquarters Company, but he that infantry unit to save someone
also never did anything to help me. else, in this case John and Luke. springing grass. The
He was now resting peacefully All too often we cry to God
and had not seen me. I completed about the situation we find lovely birds making
the paperwork and went off shift. ourselves in, and we say, “God,
The next night I came to work why me? Why let me go through
and found the first sergeant was this pain and trouble.” We are too the air vocal with
awake and doing well. After the selfish to see that God is using us
nurses’ report I went into the first to save others. If I had cried, why their happy songs,
sergeant’s room because he was me, what would have happened to
my patient for the night. When he John and Luke? We must open our the delicately tinted
looked up, I could see in his eye hearts to God, trust in His leading
that he recognized me-- and he in our lives, and we may save more
went into cardiac arrest! Within 30 than our own souls. flowers in their
minutes, after calling a code, the
first sergeant was stable again. I let perfection perfuming
him know that I was not going to
hurt him. the air, the lofty
Three nights later, the first
sergeant called me into his room
and after asking me to sit down, trees of the forest
he told me that he wanted to
make things right with God and with their rich foliage
with me, I told him that it was not
necessary, but he insisted. The first of living green -- all
sergeant told me that when I was
in his infantry unit, the battalion testify to the tender,
commander and the executive
commander did not care if I carried
a gun or not, what they wanted was fatherly care of our
for me to just put one finger, just
one hand on the gun, so they could God and to His
put me in jail. The first sergeant
also told me that if I had put just desire to make His
one finger on the gun they were
ready to arrest me and charge me
with falsifying government records, Photo: Aline Henda children happy.“ ”
by stating that I was a conscientious
objector, and then by putting my André Hope in 2016. He is an Elder
hands on the gun would make at Sacramento Central church and - Ellen White,
my statement false. hat would be volunteers for the church’s Media Steps to Christ
and The Food Closet Ministries
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