(I found this writing recently.  It was written after the event of 9/11)

I’ve been crying for two weeks.  There is a hole in my heart, my home, my people have been destroyed in the ugliest of forms – terrorism.  An act so horrific it is indescribable. I don’t want to go again to those images in my mind of the atrocities that happened on September 11, 2001.  I want – need – to focus on the other perspective – the spiritual perspective of this.  I look up from my pad to see my cat Rach staring at me.  Instead of ignoring him, I acknowledge the moment and him.  I appreciate him and this moment with him.  This horrific event has given us all an opportunity to appreciate every moment and everyone in our lives.

Those thousands of angels that gave themselves so that the world would wake-up – God bless you all.  Sometimes in life something horrific must happen before a huge lesson can be learned.  I just came through one of those just a year ago.  In that moment of ugliness you don’t see the blessing, only the darkness, but suddenly a little prick of light shines in and gets bigger and bigger until you see the lesson God has given you and you are blessed.

The human race is just that – human, and I believe an expression of God, each and everyone of us.  The perspective we’ve had as separate and different is changing….the country and the world are starting to come together as one.

Perhaps through this, we can understand each other better.  The Mideast is so different from the “free world.”  The hate they feel for us, we have to see why and forgive them and love them as they are.  We cannot change the past and the actions of yesterday, but we can choose differently tomorrow.  If we could embrace our differences of culture and religion, accept people for who they are and not for who we would like them to be.  “In our defenselessness our safety lies.”  That phrase has flowed over and over in my head.  If we stay in a state of love and trust in God, there is nothing that can touch that or violate that.

Watching 60 Minutes tonight I saw an interview with some Egyptian people.  One woman thought we deserved this attack.  Another expressed how we thought we were invincible – a super power – but this proves we are not.  To me this and other statements made, seem to portray an entity that thinks its better and perhaps throws its weight around.  I understand that – not that the actions are acceptable because they are not, but nobody likes to feel less than another.  We must help all people feel equal, important, loved.  The ingredient is love.  Without it, we are lost and so is the whole world.