As ministers, we share an analysis born of religion and faith and views, not as negotiators for our government. The government disagreed with our mission for reasons of safety in a war zone. But we also know that faith without works is dead. But faith in action has awesome power. It has the power to grant a peace that surpasses understanding.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things unseen.
It is amazing what leaders can do in a rare moment when it does not matter who gets the credit. Sigmund Freud once wrote that if you would prevail in life be prepared for death. We were promised the bombs would not stop falling. We took the risk. We have revisited the conventional wisdom that said we could not do it.