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9/11 — 25 Years Later
This will be the defining moment of my entire life. It is a defining moment for an entire generation, whether they realize it or not. The impact of that day and that time will keep on reverberating, and much of that reverberation will be because we have failed, as a culture, to dig deep and examine the impact of that…
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9/11 — 20 years
We were right to be angry at the great wrongs of 9/11, but at some point, rehearsing that anger year after year doesn’t move us toward justice, love, or the forgiveness Jesus commands of his followers. It moves us toward resentment, hostility, and bitterness, with all the trouble it brings (Heb. 12:15). We never knew how to mourn. We just…
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9/11
It’s been 20 years. It was a fundamental change in our society. I was reminded of so much in a Netflix short series called “Turning Point.” The footage of the day… the phone calls recorded from people who knew they weren’t going to make it out of the towers that day… the phone calls from Flight 93… The wars that…
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20 Years
We approach the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. We have, as a nation, not handled this event very well in our collective lives. It is hard to know how a significant anniversary like this will go. 20 years. A lot of change. A lot of shifting. A lot of revealing. 20 years. It is hard to know what lessons have truly…
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Where I failed after 9/11
It’s been 19 years. I can still remember where I was sitting. The memories of halting the retreat where I was attending, huddling around the one TV with bad reception, the shock… calling my family… Coming out of that time I also knew the word I had from the Lord: “Prepare the Body. The world is different. Get back to…
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I still remember
I still remember where I was 18 years ago. It was a Tuesday morning at a prayer retreat. The morning session had just begun when someone came in and gave us news that a tower had been hit in New York City.
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9/11 and the grief we never shared
THIS ARTICLE sums up some of the thoughts I had waking up this morning and thinking about 9/11. We are more divided and more demanding than ever before. Still. It’s 9/11. I need to remember.
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