Never Forget

I don't think any of us will ever forget where we were on September 11th when we first heard about the attacks in New York. I was driving on the 55 fwy and exiting at 4th Street when I turned on the radio to KROQ and heard Kevin and Bean saying that a plane had hit another tower, they just kept saying "Oh my God" and I thought for a split second, "that really isn't a funny thing for them to joke about" then the next second, I realized they weren't joking. I rushed to work and ran in and found a radio. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

Our America would never be the same after that point. The love that was poured out by our fellow Americans and the patriotism that came arose during that time was made me proud to be an American. I can't think back to that time in my life without it bringing tears to my eyes. Tears for the horror of the event and the lives that were lost, tears for the heroes on flight 93 who fought to take down the plane in Pennsylvania, tears for all the heroes who were first responders, and tears for all of us as Americans, and how we came together during that time in a way that is truly AMERICAN. This is what we do, we stand together, we support each other.

After 10 years, some of that love and unity has been forgotten....I hope that today we will again remember that unity we had 10 years ago. And I hope that today we as Christians in American will join together and pray for our country, pray for unity, pray that the Spirit would be poured out upon us as a Nation and pray that lives would be changed, that people would repent of their sins and turn to Christ.....

We sang this song this morning at church, I thought I would leave you with this....


America The Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!