"The Last Post was never written for funerals. It was the final call of the day in camp. The day's duties over, the perimeter walked, and the sentries posted. It meant one thing: the watch is set. You can put your head down. Someone else is awake tonight. That is how it ended up being played over graves. Because it is the kindest thing you can say to a soldier. Your watch is over. Someone else has it now. You can rest.
Most of us are standing a watch nobody posted us to. It starts around three in the morning, and we have been calling it responsibility, or love, or just the way we are made. This week we remember — and we look at a letter written from a prison cell to a town full of veterans, by a man who had something to say about sleeping at night.
Message from Rev. Glen Wells.
Prepare with Philippians 4:6–7.
