September 11, 2009

• THAT day.

  When I was a girl growing up I cannot count how many times I would listen to the conversations of grown-ups and try to figure out what they were talking about.  One thing that I remember hearing more than once was the question, “Do you remember what you were doing the day that Kennedy was shot?”  I remember wondering what the big deal was.  What was so great about the day that Kennedy was shot?

  Now I know.  Not only do I know but my generation has a similar question to ask.  One that binds us together the way that another question binds together our parents generation.  “What were you doing on 9/11?”

  I know I shall never forget what I was doing and where I was that day.  The whole day and all of it’s details remain in my mind as if it were yesterday.  The feelings that I had that day and for days after I hope I never forget.  The feelings of horror at what one human can do to another.  The feelings of helplessness and uncertainty.  Helpless to help those who were in peril.  Those who were under attack and those who were certainly in danger even though they were rushing in to give aid.  Uncertainty in the face of this new danger.  What was going to come of this.  Would the wounds heal, would the scars fade?  Would the people of this country be able to rise above the anger and rage that would surely result from such and attack?  The most overwhelming feeling was one of hurt and pity for those who were so innocently suffering for they knew not what.  Pity for those who had no chance to lift their minds and hearts up to God before their lives were cut off.

  As we commemorate yet another year past that fateful day, let each of us who has been left behind lift our minds and hearts to God.  First in thanksgiving for the many and continued blessings that God has bestowed on us and on our country.  Then let us beg Him for his favor on those who have been left behind, that they may see a divine plan in all that has come before and all that is to come and that they may find peace in knowing that God is truly in charge and managing our destiny both personally and as a country.  And finally let us remember that God expects us to strive for perfection in our own hearts and lives.  That he wishes the best for us but that we must cooperate in the gift of his grace and must work each and every day to be worthy in some way for the salvation that he died to gift to us.

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