I was driving to Hastings yesterday morning and I played a new song that my wife had suggested I get. Every once and a while, a song will grab my heart and move me to tears. This song is one of them. Here are the lyrics. I highly recommend you get this song. You won’t be sorry. In fact, it is available on the iTunes Music Store, which is where I bought it. Check it out.

Letters from War
by Mark Schultz

She runs to the mailbox
On that bright summer’s day
Found a letter from her son
In a war far away

He spoke of the weather
And good friends that he’d made
Said I’d been thinking ’bout Dad
And the life that he had
That’s why I’m here today
And then at the end he said
“You are what I’m fighting for .”
It was the first of his letters from war

She started writing
You’re good and your brave
What a father that you’ll be someday
Make it home
Make it safe
She wrote everynight as she prayed

And late in December
A day she’ll not forget
Oh her tears stained the paper
With every word that she read

It said I was up on a hill
I was out there alone
When the shots all rang out
And bombs were exploding
That’s when I saw him
He came back for me
And though he was captured
A man set me free
And that man was your son

He asked me to write to you
I told him I would oh I swore
It was the last of the letters from war

And she prayed he was living
Kept on believing
And wrote every night just to say
You are good and you’re brave
What a father that you’ll be someday
Make it home
Make it safe
So she kept writing each day

Then two years later
Autumn leaves all around
A car pulled in the driveway
And she fell to the ground

And out stepped a captain
Where her boy used to stand
Said mom I’m following orders
From all of your letters
And I’ve come home again
He ran in to hold her
And dropped all his bags on the floor
Holding all of her letters from war

Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home