Remembering....

‎"Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed"

-Isaiah 54:10

Where were you on that "normal" Tuesday morning on September 11, 2001?  It's incredible to remember in such detail a day that happened a decade ago, when I can barely remember what I ate last night for dinner.  For me, I remember being in the 7th grade at Dawkins Middle School in Mrs. Brown's class...

As our normal routine was commencing, someone runs into our classroom and whispers frantically into Mrs. Brown's ear and the television is immediately turned on.  All she kept saying was that this was going to be in our future history books and we would be studying this event for the rest of our lives.  As you can imagine, we were all a bit confused at what she was talking about.  It just looked like a building was on fire.  The TV was really small so it took us a while to realize that an airplane had hit that building.  Like most people, we thought it was a tragic accident....until that 2nd plane hit.

For 7th graders, we were pretty intuitive that a 2nd plane hitting a building was not right and was fueled by anger.  Even at age 12, I was a news junkie.  I think I started watching the Today Show before I could walk, so I actually grasped what the news anchors were saying, and I was terrified.  I was scared that such anger could push someone to do such unthinkable evil to another human being, let alone thousands of innocent lives!  My heart shattered at realizing that the world was much darker than I had grown up thinking...

I could not be prouder to be an American.  But I am even more proud of the fact that our nation can come together and fight through the adversities of this world.  One Nation Under God!  I know with all my heart that God is bigger than any terrorist that tries to face us; bigger than any threat that tries to destroy our courage; bigger than anything that tries to inflict evil on His children.

My thoughts and prayers go out to all of those who were personally affected by the tragic events on 9/11/01. My thanks go out to all of those who are fighting to protect our beloved country from further acts of evil and violence.  For the land of the FREE, and the home of the BRAVE! 

Remembering...