Day to Remember
It's a beautiful September day with sunshine and pleasant weather. This is not at all like that September seventeen years ago. It was cold, wet, and dismal outside, while our one last still at home child and I were going over school work. Our wall phone rang, and when I answered it my husband said maybe I should turn on the T.V. He'd heard something was happening, but he was on a job so he didn't know what it was.
I'm not a television watcher, and the older kids had always used the remote, but...
After I figured it out and got things turned on my eight year old son and I watched in horror at the images on the screen. It took me several weeks before my mind could grasp that life would have to come back to some sort of normalcy.
It still took time before I stopped watching the commentaries and news stories. On this day I bring out the memories and think on that date and the 2012 Benghazi date. I listen to Allan Jackson's song, Where Were You, and I say a prayer for this country and its people. Here's a link to Allan Jackson's song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2NXDJ4FabE
Many vowed they wouldn't forget, and we do remember one day a year on the anniversary, yet I believe then President Bush did us a disfavor. He was right in that we needed to buck up and carry on. We shouldn't let fear creep in and get in our way of living a full life.
I remember how we as Americans came together and prayed. We became more religious, more patriotic, more—more of something intangible. For a few moments we stood for something more than ourselves.
What President Bush didn't tell us was that we should never carry on as if nothing had happened, but indeed, we should remember. We should grow closer to God and Jesus—deepen our faith in God. We should make our lives count for righteousness.
But he didn't say that, he said, carry on...
Then in an effort to show the world that we would not be cowed by bullies we forgot where our true strength came from. We got lost in the crowd and stood for nothing.
Psalm 82:1 "...God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods. 2) How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? 3) Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. 4) Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. 5) They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6) I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High. 7) Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes. 8) Arise, O God, judge the earth; For thou shalt inherit all the nations.
