Lesson From Normandy, France

 You’re probably familiar with John 15:13, 

which says, “Greater love has no one than this: 

to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” This story includes the enemies…

The U.S. medics set up in a church 

to treat all the injured French

When the Germans broke in to seize

To help their wounded, they did not flinch

But, as they were in the house of the Lord

They asked the weapons stay at the door

Then, hidden snipers who were prepared

To shoot them, thought better… because of care

So much that when Normandy was reclaimed

These snipers surrendered peacefully, unashamed

The doctors concern was in preserving lives 

And many soldiers and wounded were saved on both sides

Always lay down sin's weapons

And enter for the saving of your soul

Lay down your pains at the feet of the son

His church is a hospital, also

“I saw an example of that firsthand recently, in a memorial to World War II soldiers in Normandy, France — which I discussed with Stuart Shepard recently on the CitizenLink Report. It was in the stained-glass window of a church near the scene of some particularly bloody battles, where scores of Americans died while trying to liberate the French people from the occupying German army.
Two U.S. medics had set up an aid station inside the church, but when it was captured by German soldiers, they asked if the medics would work on Germans as well. The Americans said they’d work on anybody, as long as everyone left their weapons at the door. This impressed two German snipers, who were watching, unnoticed, from their hidden position in the church’s belfry. Shortly afterward, the town was recaptured by the Allied forces — and the snipers, whose perspective of the enemy had been changed, peacefully surrendered.