Where would this world be without our Heroes?

What a different destiny our lives would have taken without them. 

Our Firemen have a higher purpose that intentionally brings them to deaths door steps each and every day knowing that this day could be their last.

How would one person, home, or great city ever have hope to meet the sunrise every day without the men or women who have taken a vow to protect them. Today is October 26, 2007, right now even as I begin to write this. There are over a dozen different major fires burning throughout our great State of California.

Many of these brave and honorable men and women have not slept in days, driven onward by just adrenalin and a pure heart to save lives and everything that we hold dear and precious to us. Many firemen and people have already been seriously hurt or killed from these fires.

My Father was a Assistant Fire Chief and Fire Inspector in the United States Air Force, he once told me that all fires are extremely dangerous no matter how small they may seem at first, including trying to put out a airplane that was on fire because the flame burns so clear that sometimes he has seen men almost walk straight into the fire without seeing it.

What makes a person choose a profession as dangerous as a Fire Fighter.

First it has to start with a spiritual and pure heart that loves people like Jesus did, someone who feels your grief and sorrow of the possibility of losing a loved one.

Someone who knows that their purpose is to do everything in their power to bring back our loved one so that we can hold them a little tighter today and glorify God for this second chance.

Someone who will be their to support and comfort us during the lowest moment of our lives when God calls them back into His loving arms, even though they know that their are no words that will bring us understanding or comfort during this time.

You see,

Firemen are people too, their heart breaks each and every time that someone's life is lost or is in danger, they even put themselves in harms way to save our pets, because they know that their part of our family too.

If you ever want to know the heart of a Fireman, and if they had the time to answer your question on how many people have been injured or lost during a tragic fire or rescue, no matter if it was just one person or countless others, their answer would definitely be, more than they could bear.

They get scared just like we do; no one wants to die, especially by fire.

Firemen are not brave all the time,

What makes them a hero is that they are brave when they have to be,

None of us will ever forget the tragic loss of so many heroes on September 11, 2001

How could so many firemen have lost their lives on that senseless and tragic day.

God's Word tells us why.

God's Word tells us that there is no greater love than being  Firemen.

When others are running out of a burning building,

 Without regard for their own safety,

 They rush in,

Hoping that the life that they save will be yours!

May we always keep them in our prayers

Because God needs Heroes too

Reverend Michael Cartwright

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