Posted on 09/11/2019 10:29:58 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
People ask "Where was God on 911?"
He was where He always is. Up on His throne in heaven observing everything and intervening where He knew it was needed.
He was causing a small accident that jammed cars up going to work at the WTC.
He was delaying trains.
He was causing a blister from a man's new shoes so he would have to stop and get a Bandaid and be late from work at the WTC.
He was making a small child sleepy and slow to prepare for school, making his mother late for work at the WTC.
He was giving a man a cold that caused him to call in sick from his position at the WTC.
He was causing small problems that caused people to change their flight plans on the four planes that crashed.
He was with His children as they stepped out of broken windows to escape the flames and plunging to their deaths.
He was with the firefighters as they bravely climbed the stairs to save as many as they could.
He was holding up the building so that many could escape and eventually turn to Him.
He was with the people who died when the towers fell.
He was with the frightened families who didn't know for hours or days if their loved ones were safe.
He was with those who prayed to Him and grieved and cried.
He was there. All you had to do was call on Him.
Thank you!
He let’s our free will play out. It’s only right, since He gave it to us. Vengeance is His.
Because God wanted you to live.
Wow. Hopefully you have treasured every one of those years and used them wisely. Thank God for your son.
Communication totally different in 2001. Survivors waited on line to use pay phones. Most people used pagers not cell phones. Though BlackBerry worked that day. Bush was circling on Air Force One which had no access to communication. CNN had a live feed at the towers 3 min after first plane hit.
I can’t say I remember whether I had a cell phone yet or not. Surprising to not be sure of something like that.
I do remember the jets flying overhead in NYC.
I remember being glad they were there but then realizing that if they were actually used for anything it would be to shoot down a plane full of mostly Americans!! So that was not good.
What a lousy day.
Amazing what you save. I saved the gauze used after I gave blood.
Who knows why humans save certain things.
It gets so hard to remember life before modern technology, even for those of us who lived for a long time without cell phones and the WWW etc.
Thank you God for Giuliani being mayor back then. Imagine if deblasio had been mayor?
OMG. No I can’t
I remember thinking “Well if the mayor sounds this calm, maybe it WILL be ok in the end. Maybe I shouldn’t be panicking as much as I am”
with this jerk many of us might have jumped in to the east river
Rudy’s first words to Bush were let me kill them. I think he meant trial and execute.
Wow.
Like I’ve said before, he’s a hero on Staten Island and could retire here a king :)
But I am saddened sometimes by the way he is looked upon by many here and elsewhere.
He IS NOT a conservative.
He is, however, a proud American, one of the first and most loyal of Trump’s supporters and the man who got the country through 9/11 more than any other single figure that day.
Agree. He had tried a few Nazi. Rudy is screwed up with his personal life though. The way he announced he was divorcing Donna on tv without telling her and then this Judith nonsense.
Read later.
Even with those who are pompous asses.
Screwtape replies in a letter cautioning Wormwood to hold his excitement in check because, while demons should celebrate the chaos of war, dire circumstances will also frequently bring out the very best in humans with regard to charity, courage and personal dignity.
I used to equate how good a leader would be by looking at his personal life.
I realized there did not seem to be a consistent correlation.
I don’t approve at all of his actions in his personal life but I will not vote based on it anymore. It didn’t work.
One would think there was a more direct correlation.
Amen - I know some folks who came to Jesus as a result of the aftermath of 911...grasping the innocent lives snuffed out and the determination and faith of those who worked mightily and expressed their own faith.
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