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This past summer, my wife and I were in Virginia and took the time to visit several civil

war battlefields, including the side of the Battle of Fredericksburg.

As I walked to the now perfectly groomed path, I stopped often trying to imagine the

sights and the sounds on those few horrific days in December of 1862, days that would

later be called a butchery and one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war.

Nearly 20,000 troops were dead or dying, on this manicured path I was now walking.

I knelt down behind a low stone wall, trying to imagine the fear as so many hid behind

a hune rocks for protection, just looking for anything as a shield from the rain of bullets

and shrapnel of cannon fire, anything to be a shield.

The theme for this meditation from Psalm chapter 3 is shielding, searching for anything to

shield us from the bullets and shrapnel falling into the very lives we still live.

Do you ever feel like you are under attack in your day, trying to hide from whatever or

whoever you are quite certain is prowling to devour you?

Well you aren't alone, and you are in the right place, that is what this meditation is

about.

So whether at the beginning or the end of your day, give yourself this 15-minute gift of

quiet meditation to be shielded from the prowling.

Start by taking three deep breaths as your eyes drift slowly from open into a soft gaze

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