9.10.2011

Anniversaries

Webster's definition of Anniversary: the annual recurrence of a date marking a notable event.
Obviously not all anniversaries are happy ones, like September 11.
I can remember the day very clearly (and that is saying a lot considering what my life has involved the last 10 yrs). One week before, on September 4th, my first baby FINALLY arrived. After what seemed like DAYS of labor, I had finally held my daughter. So on the morning of the 11th, I was trying to sleep. Miles had left for work, then called me, and WOKE me up! He told me to not watch TV, but to put a tape in the VCR (yes, I just typed "VCR") and record CNN. Of course I had to turn the TV on.... and immediately after figuring out what was going on and hearing that a plane was missing that was bound for California (where we were living), I RAN down the hallway to my daughter's room. I woke a sleeping baby just so I could hold her and I didn't put her down all day! I just held her and cried with news repeating over and over. I talked to Miles on the phone several times that day, begging him to come home from work.
It is amazing how the people of our country had seemed to be changed by that day, yet all these years later, the more it seems that no one has changed at all. Reminds of the Israelites.
A lot has changed in our lives, this blog is a testimony to that.
We just celebrate Sydni's 10th Birthday ( pictures to come I promise!). It is hard for me not to think about the "children of 9/11". Whether they were only kids when it happened and now adults, or even those babies who were still in their Mommy's belly and are now almost 10 years old.
A lot has changed in their lives.
I pray for them.
I pray for their Moms who lost their Dads and for Moms who lost their babies that day.
I pray for anyone affected by it.
I pray for our nation.
I pray for the people of our nation to see their desperate need for Jesus!
I always pray for the brokenhearted but especially today and tomorrow, I pray for the 9/11 brokenhearted.

Isaiah 61:1, The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;