No words...that's what keeps coming to my head as I think about what today is and what happened 11 years ago. How in the world did 11 years pass by? Where did that time go and how much has happened since then. It breaks my heart and brings tears to my eyes thinking about the children of people who passed away that day....11 years old and now starting to understand what happened and why they are without a parent today. It makes my heart hurt to think that these children have to feel such loss. I shake my head wondering why someone would want to cause such hurt and pain.
No words. I love seeing everyone coming together on Facebook ad twitter today...united and remembering even though the years have passed. A part of me feels like its not enough...like I want to post that I remember and will never forget but it doesn't feel like enough. But as silly as Facebook and twitter updates can seem on some days when we hear mostly about people's homework woes or recent purchases, today they keep us strong and united and together and offer hope.
I know that God has to be in this somehow. I feel his arms hugging me close as I think about the unfairness of it all and struggle to grasp its magnitude. I know God is working in the love that I see in peoples support and determination to remember people who were affected by what happened. I see God's hand in the fact that all the loss of the day forces us to remember to take advantage of literally every movement. That can seem like such an overwhelming thought and I know for me can make me worry that those times when I am complacent I might not be realizing the moments full potential. But in that worry God's peace and hope breaks thought o remind me to "find the beauty in everything" (Romans 12) and to find beauty in the relaxing and in the busy.
So today I am encouraged to remember and allow for the moments of sadness but also to cling to that hope that is offered in faith....the hope that spring from sorrow...a peace that only the loving hand of God can bring when no words seem to be enough.
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