“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
– St. Augustine
This blog was born during my time as a hospital chaplain as a way of keeping my financial supporters informed of my ministry. Since then it has proven to be an invaluable resource to me in documenting my experiences of life, faith, and ministry. And I hope it has been a blessing to those who read it.
As I continue to follow the call God has placed on my life into Navy Chaplaincy I hope to continue to use this blog as a way of chronicling God’s work in my life.
For most of my life I have felt like a bit of a restless wanderer. And like that quote from St. Augustine, I have found that the rest my heart longs for is only found in God Himself.
I’ve found that I feel the closest to God when I am serving and loving people in the hardest and most broken moments of life – when I am “imitating my father.” To me this is the call of a chaplain.
Nowhere is the brokenness of life more vividly on display than war. So, I have followed God’s call to be a chaplain to the war fighters of the United States Navy. I believe in the great capacity of the US Military to be a force for good in a broken world. And I desire to foster in my sailors, marines, and coast guard personnel, the kind of spiritual toughness that comes from devotion to the best of our country’s ideals which flow from the character of the God whom my heart restlessly seeks. And if the worst should happen, I hope to bear testimony to the loving God I know, who resides in even the most broken places of our world.
May you be blessed by what you find here.
– Chaplain Jeremy Carr, United States Navy
(Revised 8/27/2019)
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