I’d like to share a Veterans Day prayer from Rev. Alice Olson, who leads Ecumen’s spiritual services at Ecumen’s Bayshore and Lakeshore communities in Duluth, Minnesota. Thank you to everyone who has served our country, is serving and who has shared their family members in service to America. God Bless.

Almighty God, CreatorWe commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace, strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be.We ask that you be present with us this day as we honor and remember those in this community who have served or are serving especially those who work for Ecumen and their families.May your love and strength be with them, within them and around them.Amen.