(Guideposts Devotion for September 11th - By Brian Doyle)
Pray for each other so that you may be healed.... James 5:16 (NIV)
"A haunted day, September 11, here in the States that are still United in the wild idea that interindependence is possible and glorious. A shivering day. It always will be.
I pray it never becomes a mere anniversary, an event only to remember murder and terror and fire and fear—or even worse, a day only to celebrate vengeance. No, I pray it becomes a day to remember courage and grace and love. I pray that will someday be the story of September 11. To remember right is to pray right, says my dad, and he knows about murderous souls; he fought against Hitler.
He says to remember the roaring courage of the people who rushed to help, and the people who helped others out of the fire and ash, and the people who used their last minutes on earth to call their families and say “I love you. I love you. I will love you forever,” is to pray for them and us and even for the poor silly murderers, themselves just lanky, frightened boys, in the end, bloody boys terrified of a free world.
He says to remember the firemen who ran up, knowing they would never come down, the passengers storming the cockpit, the sergeant who ran out of the Pentagon to catch women leaping from high windows is the way to erase the name of the chief murderer.
He says that if we remember right, if we pray with our hearts in our mouths, maybe someday no one will remember the architect of ruin, but everyone will remember a day when the courage and mercy and glory of human beings rose to such a tide that no one will ever forget. That could happen, says my dad, and who will gainsay my dad? Not I.
Dear Lord, for the murdered, our prayers. For the murderers, our prayers. For us, frightened and muddled, prayers. For the courage to remember right, to witness and sing grace under duress, to someday find the country of forgiveness, prayers."
Amen.
Letter To The Editor
ReplyDeleteJoe,
I just checked out Chuck Cooks Facebook page to see what he posted about remembering and reflecting on 9/11. You know Chuck Cook, Mr. Chuck Cook. The famous friend of our great Mayor Jim Ireton. Yes Chuck Cook, Mr. Maryland Democrat. Yes that Chuck Cook, the honorable Chuck Cook who loves his country and all the people who serve our country. Well guess what? There is nothing on Chuck Cook's Facebook page about honoring or remembering the victims who lost their lives in the attacks on America on 9/11. Nothing on remembering the attacks on the Americans at Benghazi. Even one of the Americans murdered at Benghazi was a known Homosexual so you would think he would be sad for that guy? Not one picture, not one comment about those who lost their lives on these devastating attacks. Nothing on praying for our troops who are putting their lives on the line. Nothing about the police and firefighters.
Then I checked some of his buddies like Chris Demone, Brian Kemmet and Bill Duck and neither of them have anything honoring 9/11. Those guys are absolutely heartless! Jim Ireton has nothing honoring or remembering the victims of 9/11. The only thing Jim Ireton has is a few pictures of an event he attended at one of the schools. All it was, was another photo op for Jim Ireton. Proof of that is the fact that he changed his Homo Flag profile pic with one for today's photo op.
In conclusion we have a high ranking Democrat in the State of Maryland and a Democrat Mayor of Salisbury who are the most unpatriotic Pieces of heartless Crap. This proves that these Obama loving miscreants are supporters of Islam and Al Qaeda just like their idols O'Malley and Obama.