Sifting Through Life

From a fellow blogger------------------------

The memories of this day will forever be engrained in my mind as I recall sitting on the edge of my bed watching in horror.

As I watched along with the rest of our country, I weeped.  The tragedy before my eyes was unbelieving.

I turned to a piece of paper and started writing.

The words just flowed from my heart into the muscles of my hand and rapidly wrote the thoughts that came to my mind.

Today, I woke up and remembered this yellow piece of paper that I had kept so dear to my heart for 11 years.  Every year I have reread these words that I wrote filled with emotion, a sad heart and tears dropping onto the page.

I finished the poem today with a few short paragraphs.

I will never forget the lives that were lost, the hero's that were present.

I will never forget that for a nation so large, we came together. 

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Where was God today?

I ask,

Where were you,

when life turned to wearing a mask.

People question His desires,

As we watched with horror at the towers.

Today we finally learned

AGAIN

That freedom is never given but earned.

I question MY faith

I question MY God

The bottom line ,

 some men are filled with hate.

This we learned with hearts refilled

Seeing today,

that we are a country united.

We found the will.

I may ask, where was God?

Look around

I will see, He is here to be.

Our redeemer,

Our healer,

Our mentor,

Our comforter of life.

The life that was taken

Was not in vane.

For those that will be saved

Will out number those lost.

The pain today will not seem real

tomorrow we will start to heal.

Forever changed

We will be.

A country united and determined to be free.

Where was God?  I ask.

Look inside yourself

And see that he never left,

we just changed our mask.

When I saw the horror

I knew that life had changed forever.

At times

Filled with sorrow

Will we heal?

Will we Trust?

The answer can only be,

YES.

Will we learn?

Will we Question?

The answer can only be ,

YES.

Eleven years later we learned,

Unity.

Love.

Faith.

Charity.

Service.

Respect.

I learned that God never left our sides.

He carried the hero’s.

Held the mourners,

Guided the rescuers.

Comforted the families.

With time we have memorialized those that left.

 We Rebuilt.

With certain, That I will never forget the events of that day, September 11^th.