Lord keep our servicemen and women safe

Heavenly Father, please watch over all of our servicemen and women.  Lord they go forth to stand in front  of all of us in order to protect us and to keep us safe from outside danger.  They give up the chance to live the lives that we all get to choose.  They spend all their time in preparation to go out and do battle so that we can live in a free society.  Lord bless them as they go about their duties each day.  I thank you that they all belong to someone who needs and misses them.  They are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, nieces and nephews, and aunts and uncles.  Help them to know that you are with them.  Make yourself real in their lives Lord and help them to remember that there are people who love them and who are praying for them.  Keep them safe from hurt, harm danger, death and disease.  In this world of technology, we shouldn't have to lose any of our sons and daughters to enemies who are driven by ungodly motives.  Give them peace as they go through their routines each day and let them have sound minds even when they are under stress.  Help them to have steady hands to do their work and hearts full of courage and faith to help them stand.   May they all find joy in something each day, and may that joy carry them through to the next day.  Help them to live with no regrets and give them the ability to build strong happy families.  We thank you Lord for their lives, and for their choice to serve in this way.  May they walk with you, know you, trust you, and love you so that their joy might be made full and complete and so that their eternity will be sure.  In Jesus name we pray .  Amen.