The United States is always in fast mode to show quick remembrance and then run to the next event or moment. Last week I wrote about how the three current living generations have been impacted by events and moments with a special emphasis for 9-11-01.
The date, September the 11th is a date that has many memories prior to the terrorist attack that occurred in New York City, at the Pentagon in Washington and the memorial of an open field in Pennsylvania that was Flight 93. Certainly the terrorist attack on that date in 2001 has overshadowed all other world events. I know of individuals who were born on September 11th, I officiated at the wedding of Mr. Mrs. Lance Kidd on that date in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Golden Rule Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star in London, Ky., was founded on that date in the year 1909.
In the fast mode of living that seems to be the custom here in the U.S. we feel good to remember things on specific dates but I believe the real lesson for learning is that we are impacted daily because of the experienced living we have witnessed and participated throughout our life. President Abraham Lincoln in The Gettysburg Address delivered on November 19, 1863, provided then and now a position that we should each hold to and strive in emulation. President Lincoln on that day said, “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, but the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth”.
The sacrifice of lives for freedom and principals is nothing new to the experience of life. The call to duty has at times been one clearly seen on the approaching horizon while during other time frames we have been caught off-guard totally for that moment. On September 11, 2001 there was both an approaching danger seen by the government and a moment that caught us as individual citizens mostly unaware.
With confusion and still unanswered questions since 2001, our Nation and the world continues to deal with the affects of the decisions made that day, but we have not stopped moving neither forward as a Nation nor as individuals. Obstacles and set backs are a part of life that must be dealt with through attitude, redirection, and constant dreams of the future.
The greatest gift of hope and peace I have discovered was found in Jesus Christ. Hope is all about the things you have not yet placed your hands on, nor the things you have yet to see with your eyes. Some folks will never believe until they see, but the blessings come in seeing with your heart and not your eyes. Peace goes hand-n-hand with hope and again the source I have found for that answer is in Jesus Christ.
September 11, 2001 is one date in our Nations History, and while today may not be marked by world-wide historical documentation, but the positive difference you decided to make in just one life may very well be all the difference in the world thus changing the course of history.
Until then
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