Eleven Years Ago, Today: 9/11

Today as we filled our lives with our "normal" Tuesday routine....preschool, voice, a visit to the local park, dinner, painting toe nails and fingernails, reading bedtime stories.........

New York City and the nation are commemorating the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people after two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and one crash landed in Shanksville, Pa. 

As I browsed pictures and stories online today, I held my breath----my heart heavy........Tonight, Daddy sits on the couch watching a replay of this day in history.........and you, our innocent child just four years old, asleep in your bed........This evening, I told Daddy that I couldn't believe that eleven years had passed. He too was astonished at the amount of time as he reflected where he was on that day. Daddy was in the Bahamas....stranded when he couldn't fly out to return home to Dyersburg. Mommy was in Cumming, Georgia teaching a classroom full of second graders. The photographs. The videos. The news footage. All graphic. All silencing. 

Tonight, I know if you were old enough to see the pictures and hear the stories of this day in history, you'd still ask, "Why, Mommy? Why, Daddy?" 

My thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this horrific day eleven years ago. I pray that God's embrace is their comfort tonight. And as I search for words on how to explain the world around us to you, I'll continue seek God's guidance and resources of other parents. Here's one that I found tonight that I'll keep as a resource for when your questions begin to peak: America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell by Don Brown.

"They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties." -Spencer W. Kimball

Be still, my child---as difficult as your circumstances may seen or be in the present. Listen. Observe. Search. Question. Wonder. Know in your heart that Psalm 46 says, "God is our refuge and strength—He dwells in his city, does marvelous things, and says, Be still and know that I am God!"