September 3, 2011:  For those of you like me you are ready for college football spending Saturdays glued to the television most of the day and night.  Each is looking and guessing which team will have the best season and picking their choices.  Football is a given each year, and we take it for granted with many spending boat loads of money on their team's gear.  I am guilty.

This year is a bit different for me because it comes in the midst of the 9/11 terror attacks on our country marking the 10th anniversary of that horrific day.  For me that day, September 11, 2001, will forever be etched in my memory, and it can be recalled in vivid detail as I am sure everyone can.

Who could possibly forget watching the planes hit the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and the diverted plane driven into the ground in PA?  Who would do such a thing?  Yes, we all know the people responsible for carrying out the attacks and the mastermind behind the attacks.  But take it further, and you might say it was Anti-Americans, and that is absolutely true.  We live in a free country, and yet there are those who hate Americans for whatever reason.

When I think about who was responsible, I conclude that in addition to it being Anti-Americans it is also those for whom there is no love, no hope, and no respect for human beings.  They are a part of those souls who have never accepted God as a God of Love, a God of Hope, and a God who created the human race and who respects us so much that He granted us the power of Free Will.  I cannot imagine living life without knowing there is a God of Love who does not want us to hate or kill. 

As tragic as 9/11 was it brought about the wonderful qualities of all people in America.  All conflicts were set aside, and everyone worked side by side day and night to save lives and ultimately restore that which was destroyed.  I remember feeling God's love and God's work in action.  While there will always be hate in this sin filled world, there is also love that fills that void. 

So this football season as we prepare to go about our daily routines and spend our Saturdays in front of the television watching our favorite teams, let us also remember the events that occurred almost 10 years ago.
 


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