Blog 5, Don’t Forget 9/11/2001

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            Jesus said to His followers, “I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world." Jn 16:33 NLT.

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John writes

            This post will be a bit disjointed--vignettes, and remembrances.

            While returning from the store today, Sunday 9/11, I heard a news report. It was about a community in the Philadelphia region that has a Garden of Remembrance to the victims of 9/11. Due to my age, that caused me to remember December 7, 1941. President Franklin Roosevelt, during his Day of Infamy speech said, “Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us.”

            Today we remember the unprovoked, heinous and cowardly attack on America that clear, warm September morning in 2001.

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            On September 11, 2001, my wife called me at work and said, “We’re being attacked.”

            My response, “No. That’s not possible. Who told you that!”

            Then around me in the office other people began to talk about the “attack.” We got on our computers and began to watch the tragedy unfold.

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            Sometime later, we learned our son-in-law was supposed to be in one of the Towers that morning. But Carol’s daughter wanted her husband home for something that was going on that week and she didn’t want him traveling. So she prayed and had her Bible study group pray. He was not in the Towers that morning.

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            Today, while waiting to go to church, Carol, my wife, is playing her piano. The current hymn is I Know Who Holds Tomorrow. Our lives can be so overwhelming and the unknowns of tomorrow can hold such fear. Remember who hold’s tomorrow.

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            The hymn she is now playing is Rock of Ages. When our world turns upside down, let us remember we have a Rock. Here are some of the words from this old hymn:

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy wounded side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure.

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            There was a remembrance show on the Discovery television channel this morning about the brave firefighters of Fire Department of New York 10 House, the station across the street from the carnage—those who died that morning, and those who lived and helped save hundreds of office workers. Six died running to the disaster.

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            2,977 men, women, and children died in that attack.

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            What do you remember about 9/11?

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            Can we agree that America needs prayer? Then let us pray with the writer of Psalm 138:7 (NKJV), “Through I walk in the midst of trouble, you (God) will revive me.”

                                       

                                          The World Trade Center Cross