September 11th... 17 years later
On S eptember 16, 2001, I was scheduled to bring the morning message to my home congregation in Atlanta. I was scheduled to share long before the events of September 11th occurred, but any preparation I had made was set aside after that day. I offer to you my words from many years ago as Thoughts to Ponder today. Something to make you think about your motivations then, and now. How did that day affect your view of God and the world around us? As this week has passed by, there have been a wide variety of emotions running through all of us. We have all felt shock, pain, fear, anger and I pray, hope. At first, it was as if this wasn’t really happening. I heard one comment that said they were waiting to see Bruce Willis come running out of a building as if this was just another “Die Hard” movie. I was on the phone in my office when someone put a note in front of me saying a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. With no televisions in the office, a few radios were turned on