Hope Beyond the Battlefield – A Veteran’s Perspective

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Jesus Calling

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🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Zachary Bell is a husband, father, and veteran. He served as an infantry rifleman in the United States Marine Corps, and did two combat tours in Afghanistan. Zachary discusses his time in service to his country, how it affected his family, and how the Journey Home Project helped him successfully navigate his post-military life.

"Come to Me for rest and refreshment. The journey has been too much for you, and you are bone-weary. Do not be ashamed of your exhaustion. Instead, see it as an opportunity for Me to take charge of your life.

Remember that I can fit everything into a pattern for good, including the things you wish were different. Start with where you are at this point in time and space, accepting that it is where I intend you to be. You will get through today one step, one moment at a time. Your main responsibility is to remain attentive to Me, letting Me guide you through the many choices along your pathway.

This sounds like an easy assignment, but it is not. Your desire to live in My Presence goes against the grain of “the world, the flesh, and the devil.” Much of your weariness results from your constant battle against these opponents. However, you are on the path of My choosing, so do not give up! Hope in Me, for you will again praise Me for the help of My Presence."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling Podcast.
0:06.0	The Journey Home Project is an organization that assists veterans who are returning
0:11.0	from active duty to civilian life.
0:13.0	Their mission is to connect donors to veteran organizations
0:16.0	that do the most good to help with this sometimes difficult transition.
0:20.0	Country music legend Charlie Daniels is chairman of the board for the Journey Home Project and talks about why this organization is so important.
0:29.0	I learned very early in my life that and I said it's on stage every night.
0:34.4	Only two things protect America.
0:36.4	It's the grace of Almighty God in the United States military.
0:39.6	Is that way in 1941 it's that way this year, next year, the year after as long as this country remains free, it will be that.
0:47.0	It's a part of who I am to respect and support the military.
0:51.0	That's what Journey Home is all about. We try to soften the landing for our military
0:56.2	men and women who come back from service, most of them from battle areas, combat areas.
1:09.0	Zachary Bell is a husband, father and veteran. He served as an infantry rifleman in the United States Marine Corps
1:12.0	and did two combat tours in Afghanistan.
1:16.0	My name is Zachary Bell and I was an Infantry Rifleman and when I left the Marine Corps my last job I was an infantry squad leader.
1:25.0	My job was just to protect the people and wherever I was at and to try and
1:30.0	provide some form of a stable government by assisting the people in Afghanistan
1:35.8	and also to fight enemy combatants. I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, in West Tennessee, and growing up. I was a troublemaker.
1:47.6	I would say the thing I did most was cause trouble. I was just always wild at heart is what my grandmother used to say.
1:56.0	Parents got divorced when I was really young and I started to realize the different levels people had of income or economic status some people have and that I didn't have.
2:07.3	We were poor growing up. So it really was hard. I remember my mother was working,
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