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One Nation Under Godby Kirsten Porter written shortly after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 God where were you yesterday? I looked for you everywhere You were so hard to find my father came home from Bible study dropped his car keys, a bag of groceries, his Bible to the counter and looked at me “This is a crazy world,” he said in a voice pained and flat I did not understand until he turned on the T.V. God did you see?
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the television flashed black and white footage two hijacked planes flying into New York crashing into the World Trade twin towers God where were you? when New Yorkers ran through the streets tucking their faces in their shirts the ash and smoke, death and dying all around in my America?
a woman on the radio said it was like confetti white confetti falling from the skies I thought of Virginia’s white snows in winter the silvery fall from the skies was that what death was like? Virginia winter confetti
did you see them God? jumping from the buildings like birds with clipped wings did you hold their hands when they made the leap into your world? the Trade buildings came tumbling down like a child’s wooden block tower
God did you see another hijacked plane crash into the Pentagon and still another crash in Pennsylvania? were you sitting next to the woman who called her husband on the cell phone and said good bye
did you know there were children at school studying Geometry, History – the neat type-set of grammar texts did you know some of these children came home, fatherless or motherless, changed in one day?
God I tried to eat yesterday but my bowl of cereal tasted like ash and death God I tried to sleep yesterday but my heart hurt and I kept waking to the memories of police officers pulling people from the wreckage like treasures from a buried chest brave firefighters choking on smoke and tears fighting the fires, the death Americans saving themselves, each other and then I found you God
later “ Attack on America” was the headline I tried to say it out loud but the words sounded strange on my lips in my America? land of the free , the 4th of July, desert storm, the America I pledged to in grade school the 50 stars I counted over and over from my desk the flag I learned to fold in Girl Scouts parades and campaign buttons, the field trips to DC museums and monuments the pride in my voice on the trip to Europe when the German man asked where I was from and I smiled back and answered “I am from the United States”“one nation under God-Liberty and Justice for all” dear God this all happened in my America
did you see the tears of Americans I thought I heard you crying with the country You were with us yesterday and today when we move through the debris waking from a terrible dream yesterday is a toss and tangle of sheets
Mayor Guiliani is on the screen his face is drawn like a dark curtain his shaking hand is squeezed by another leader and he speaks sadly but proudly insists we go back to life live as normal as possible eat at restaurants, drink coffee at cafés talk, walk the streets holding hands but also pray, give blood pull the last of the living from the rubble
God this happened in my America but so did the saving, the prayer services the candlelight vigils the long line to donate blood the officers giving their lives You were with us yesterday
God you are with us today and I need to feel you, remember the saving in my America because my dad said this is a crazy world and I’m only 22, God learning to put trust in a world I can’t always trust for now I’ll put my trust in you and my trust in America because this is still my America my waving flag of the stars and stripes, my promised freedom
God I see you so clearly today You are holding my America crying for my America opening your hands
You set my America free because we are ready to fly on our own because God was with us yesterday and God lives in America today - Kirsten Porter Do you want to join us in prayer? Do you need prayer? Click Here. Last weeks Devotion: September 11, 2001: A Day of Terror Last modified September 20, 2001. Would you like to receive your own weekly devotions? Be involved in our prayer chain? Other Recent Devotions: Trust, Faith and "The Dentist Office" All I wanted was a bag of mulch... Ten Questions of Faith and Ministry Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City and Waco Spiritual Gifts and the Prayer of Jabez Part one Worship: Annoying Sounds or Vital Communication? Under the Cross: A Divine Warning A River Journey, Waiting and A Button Called Faith A Letter of Faith: Pastor Held Prisoner in North Korea
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