Thursday, August 6, 2009

A Prayer for Peace: Hiroshima, 64 Years Later

A few years ago I had the opportunity to be in Japan on this date: August 6th, 1945. Sixty four years ago we, the USA, dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

We followed this bomb with a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 9th.

Countless lives were loss at the initial bombing, followed by years of people dying from sickness related to the after-effects of the bombing.

The world changed as well.

What Einstein thought was a marvel to producing energy was--and he was well aware of it--a possible source of horrors.

Let us lift up prayers for those whose lives were lost, for the lives of those effected, and pray that a nuclear bomb will never be detonated again.

Peace,

Pastor Brett

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