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Deck of Cards |
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Submitted through Daisy G. |
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A
young soldier was in his bunkhouse all alone one
Sunday morning over in Afghanistan. It was quiet
that day, the guns and the mortars, and land
mines for some reason hadn't made a noise. The
young soldier knew it was Sunday, the holiest
day of the week. As he was sitting there, he got
out an old deck of cards and laid them out
across his bunk. Just then an army sergeant came
in and said, "Why aren't you with the rest of
the platoon?"
The soldier replied, "I thought I would stay
behind and spend some time with the Lord." The
sergeant said, "Looks like you're going to play
cards." The soldier said, "No sir, you see,
since we are not allowed to have Bibles or other
spiritual books in this country, I've decided to
talk to the Lord by studying this deck of
cards."
The sergeant asked in disbelief, "How will you
do that?"
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"You see the Ace, Sergeant, it reminds that
there is only one God. The Two represents the
two parts of the Bible, Old and New Testaments.
The Three represents the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost.
The Four stands for the Four Apostles: Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John.
The Five is for the five virgins that were ten
but only five of them were glorified.
The Six is for the six days it took God to
create the Heavens and Earth.
The Seven is for the day God rested after
working the six days.
The Eight is for the family of Noah and his
wife, their three sons and their wives, in which
God saved the eight people from the flood that
destroyed the earth for the first time.
The Nine is for the lepers that Jesus cleansed
of leprosy. He cleansed ten but nine never
thanked Him.
The Ten represents the Ten Commandments that God
handed down to Moses on tablets made of stone.
The Jack is a reminder of Satan. One of God's
first angels, but he got kicked out of heaven
for his sly and wicked ways and is now the joker
of eternal hell.
The Queen stands for the Virgin Mary.
The King stands for Jesus, for he is the King of
all kings.
When I count the dots on all the cards, I come
up with 365 total: one for every day of the
year.
There are a total of 52 cards in a deck: each is
a week, 52 weeks in a year.
The four suits represents the four seasons:
Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
Each suit has thirteen cards: there are exactly
thirteen weeks in a quarter.
So when I want to talk to God and thank Him, I
just pull out this old deck of cards and they
remind me of all that I have to be thankful
for."
The sergeant just stood there and after a
minute, with tears in his eyes and pain in his
heart, he said, "Soldier, can I borrow that deck
of cards?" |
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--The origin of this story is
unclear. However a broadsheet titled "The Soldier's Prayer-Book" which recounts
the same story as the 1948 song "Deck of Cards" appears in an 1865 book about
the history of playing cards. -
snopes.com |
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