If you believe in a God...read this

[Kymberley]

Very sobering when put this way.


Got this in email from a friend.

I had a very dear friend question my faith in God right after the terrorist attack on America. Her question was simply put, "Where is your God today?" She was very hurt, as all Americans were, so I tried not to react defensively.

Since that moment I have prayed and grieved over the disastrous events. However, I believe I have the answer. I know where my God was the morning of September 11, 2001! He was very busy.

First of all, he was trying to discourage anyone from taking this flight. Those four flights together held over 1000 passengers and there was only 266 aboard.

He was on 4 commercial flights giving terrified passengers the ability to stay calm. Not one of the family members who was called by a loved one on one of the high-jacked planes said that passengers were screaming in the background. On one of the flights he was giving strength to passengers to try to overtake the highjackers.

He was busy trying to create obstacles for employees at the World Trade Center. After all only around 20,000 were at the towers when the first jet hit. Since the buildings hold over 50,000 workers, this was a miracle in itself. How many of the people who were employed at the WTC told the media that they were late for work or they had traffic delays.

He was holding up 2-110 story buildings so that 2/3 of the workers could get out. I was so amazed that the top of the towers didn't topple when the jets impacted.

Although this is without a doubt the worst thing I have seen in my life, I can see God's miracles in every bit of it. I keep thinking about my friend and praying for her every chance I have. I can't imagine going through such a difficult time and not believing in God. Life would be hopeless.

 

[Merelan]

Thank you.

 

[Kymberley]

You're welcome.

 

[MissTaken]

Thanks, Kymberley.

I hope you don't mind that I copied it and e mailed it.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Very nice.

How many of the people who were employed at the WTC told the media that they were late for work or they had traffic delays.

That wasn't God, that was the Interborough Rapid Transit system.

Still, I'm happy for anyone who found comfort in this.

 

[shadowsource]

God was trying to vote -

There's no question that a lot of people were late for work because they were trying to vote, using our 80-year-old machines.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Re: God was trying to vote -

There's no question that a lot of people were late for work because they were trying to vote, using our 80-year-old machines.

at least you have machines... our voting is still done with a #2 pencil and little dots to fill in

 

[Nathon_88]

You mean there's another way than the #2 pencil way?

*shocked*

Not how the Canadian Gov't Does it.

Kymberly. (((((BIG MONSTER HUG)))))

God exists. I know he does. He's with us all the time.

Miracles happen. Like an agnostic converting.

Like me finding God, praying at 3 AM in the morning, staring at a candle that burned all night.

 

[Cheyenne]

I've had several people email this to me in the last week or so. It did make me think.

Thanks for posting it here.

 

[Young Knave]

Very nice.



That wasn't God, that was the Interborough Rapid Transit system.

Still, I'm happy for anyone who found comfort in this.

I've always wondered why god only gets credit for the good stuff. When some housewife goes over the edge and killls her family, she was mentally ill. When lightning hits a church its bad luck. Yet if someone someone happens to call in sick the day a building is bombed, that's a miracle.

 

[rahfirst]

Those of us who know the reality of God and His Christ also know that the Enemy of God, Satan, is also real. I don't have any answers at all for those who have not met God at the foot of the cross. I am not a scholar. This much I know, I should be dead four times over and still I live. Why? I can't say. I believe He will answer in his own time.

God save America and..

 

[GuyJD]

THAT WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL, KYMBERLEY

In the period of February to April of 1987, we lost my dad, his sister, and her husband all from illnesses. And after that occurred, I remember my sister-in-law telling me, "If there is such a thing as a God, why would he do that as he did?"
Fortunately, I don't believe like that.

As I see it, that email that you just shared with us says it all, Kym.

 

[RisiaSkye]

for the atheists, from a witch

I don't think you have to be religious, or even believe in any kind of Great Spirit to take something from this.

God (in all its many forms) is ultimately about hope. God/s give us as humans an ideal to aspire to, and a way to seek guidance and meaning in our lives. Every situation, no matter how bad, could have been worse. What the religious might term grace, and others might call peace, remains always possible.

Whether you see the events of 9/11 as the work of evil, or simply as tragic without religious/spiritual connotations, it did not destroy as much as it might have. Whether reason or chaos lies behind that fact, it is something to be grateful for. It gives us hope, in a time when it's desperately needed for many reasons.

 

[Glyndwr]

Is there a supreme being? I don't think so. But mankind needed someone to blame when shit happens. Of all the things that could be in the universe why did he choose to make man in his own image, that is very arrogant. However, I have seen the strength that some get from their belief, not necessarily christian, so again God is a tool for comfort. Whatever anyone believes they have the right to do so without interfence and prejudice from any other sector of society.

On a lighter note: RisiaSkye - that is a cool avatar

 

[RisiaSkye]

Resurrecting a dead thread...

On a lighter note: RisiaSkye - that is a cool avatar

..in order to 1) make a Lazarus reference and 2) say thanks.