story8540.xml
Title
story8540.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-10-21
911DA Story: Story
Thoughts on September 11th.
I can?t believe people can get so angry when we ask them to think of what the United States may have done to deserve this. Can we be so arrogant that we refuse to believe that we may be wrong? If we are so righteous, there should be no threat to our ego when we entertain thoughts of our own possible shortfalls.
Who are we to ask, ?How could God let something like this happen?? God does not let anything happen that is not according to his divine will. Who are we to ask, ?How could God let something like this happen to us?? As if we deserve anything at all from God. God who created us; God who provides for us; God who gave us this beautiful world to live in; God who we turn our backs on when he makes our life easy; and God who we run scared and crying to when he makes us work for our happiness.
The key is to draw closer to God in all aspects of our life, and rely on Him whether or not life is going the way we like. We must also strive to keep this world beautiful, by first realizing that it does not belong to us, and treating it as something that we do not own, as if expecting the owner to return soon.
In light of what happened on September Eleventh, Two-Thousand and One, we must realize that God has a reason for letting something as atrocious as this happen to innocent people, and we can only speculate as to what this reason might be. Perhaps God has let us get so far down to get our attention. Perhaps he has exhausted all other possibilities, and must now resort to what we would refer to as drastic measures to make us realize that he is what we should give our allegiance to, rather than the money we so fully rely on.
Justin Watson
I can?t believe people can get so angry when we ask them to think of what the United States may have done to deserve this. Can we be so arrogant that we refuse to believe that we may be wrong? If we are so righteous, there should be no threat to our ego when we entertain thoughts of our own possible shortfalls.
Who are we to ask, ?How could God let something like this happen?? God does not let anything happen that is not according to his divine will. Who are we to ask, ?How could God let something like this happen to us?? As if we deserve anything at all from God. God who created us; God who provides for us; God who gave us this beautiful world to live in; God who we turn our backs on when he makes our life easy; and God who we run scared and crying to when he makes us work for our happiness.
The key is to draw closer to God in all aspects of our life, and rely on Him whether or not life is going the way we like. We must also strive to keep this world beautiful, by first realizing that it does not belong to us, and treating it as something that we do not own, as if expecting the owner to return soon.
In light of what happened on September Eleventh, Two-Thousand and One, we must realize that God has a reason for letting something as atrocious as this happen to innocent people, and we can only speculate as to what this reason might be. Perhaps God has let us get so far down to get our attention. Perhaps he has exhausted all other possibilities, and must now resort to what we would refer to as drastic measures to make us realize that he is what we should give our allegiance to, rather than the money we so fully rely on.
Justin Watson
Collection
Citation
“story8540.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 10, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/7771.