Count Your Blessings #10 – Peace

Sometimes I become grateful for things in strange ways. Today was definitely one of those days.

I am in Amsterdam, away from my family, and today a set of bombs have been triggered by a terrorist group in London killing over 30 people. This isn’t the first time that something dramatic has happened when I have been away from home. I was away from my family on September 11th, that time I was visiting a customer.

I can’t truly say why the thought of bombs in London got me thinking about war and conflict, but it did. It got me thinking that I was very fortunate to live in a country which hasn’t seen a major conflict for a very long time. I thank my grandfather’s generation that I have never had to go to war, something that almost every generation of British young men has had to do before me. I also thank those young men and women who daily expend their energies keeping it that way. Today’s event have highlighted what a tremendous job they do in a world which is not free from war and conflict.

I’m not here in Amsterdam looking forward to death on the battlefield and my family isn’t living in fear of nightly bombings. For that I am very grateful.

Events like today’s should make us realise how precious our peace and or freedom are, and make us value them even more highly.