There are mistakes in it. I wrote it from the heart. I’m not correcting it because I wrote it after reading another 9-11 thread and thinking about life.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, with the focus on the eternal over the temporary through a good attitude each day towards all. The comment about “not worry[ing] about what I’m eating or drinking because I’m alive to eat and drink” ties in especially — I vividly remember losing any desire to eat.
September 11 (August 29 according to the Orthodox church’s “old” calendar) is a day of fasting and prayer to commemorate the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. Not incidentally, it has traditionally been a day of remembrance of those who have given their lives in defense of their country.
The tragedy made the purpose and sense of that fast day very real: fasting for St. John the Baptist, who died for truth; fasting for those fallen in defense of their country who died for truth; now fasting as well for those who perished on September 11, 2001 in a battle waged by Islam for world terror and against truth.
Thanks again for sharing.
THX. VERY WELL DONE.
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.