Today Mark and I drove the Tennessee National Guard Parkway heading to Smyrna to get our military ID’s renewed.

All along this road are memorial signs with fallen soldiers names on them. Some names are SFC and one I noticed had the II after his last name which means he was not senior, not junior, but the 3rd in his family with that same name.

The route was very touching to me and I knew somewhere soon along that route we would see the fellow soldier of Mark’s with the name of Robert Wesley Tucker. Sure enough we passed his sign and someone had placed 2 small United States flags in the stake that holds up his sign.

I know Wesley’s family personally and this got me to thinking that his Mom and Dad may have placed those flags there or maybe a fellow comrade pulled over to the side of the road and that was the way they paid their respects and remembrances.

Some of these families lost the only son that they had and me losing a son let’s me know firsthand that pain. None of those families nor I wanted to give up our sons which led me to thinking about God.

In John 3:16 it says that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

God knew ahead of time what would happen to his Son and He did it anyway because He loves us that much!

This weekend is Easter and it is all about remembrance. We have Easter each year, not for bunnies, chicks, colored eggs or fancy clothes but we have it to remember the God that loves us so much that He gave us His Son to die for our sins so that we can have eternal life…. I think that is pretty special and well worth remembering!

Happy Easter!