A Soldier's Deck of Cards

I may not ever look at a deck of cards in the same way.

A special use for a deck of cards...

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?"