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Fwd: FW: Don't go back
#1 · October 1, 2001, 11:15 pm
633dc0fe45873.rfc822Posted by: BeckyBoop4 <BeckyBoop4@...>
Okay, I can help it I keep getting these awesome emails and I just can not let them go unread. This one is from my dh cousins' dh. Enjoy! Becky
In a message dated 10/1/01 4:53:45 PM Central Daylight Time, Georgianne_Plumberg@bc.com writes:
In a message dated 10/1/01 4:53:45 PM Central Daylight Time, Georgianne_Plumberg@bc.com writes:
I always wondered why if church and state should be totally separated Congress and the Senate start the sessions with a prayer often. I really liked this one and wanted to pass it on. Thanks to those that forwarded it to me.
Subject: From My Brother-In-Law
> >
> > Subject: "Do we want to go back to normal?"
> >
> >
> > This "should" give all of us something to really think about.
> >
> >
> > "Do we want to go back to normal?"
> >
> > Four thousand gathered for mid-day prayer in a downtown cathedral. A
> > New York City church filled and emptied six times last Tuesday. The
> > owner of a Manhattan tennis shoe store threw open his doors and gave
> > running shoes to those fleeing the towers. People stood in lines to
> > give blood, in hospitals to treat the sick, in sanctuaries to pray for
> > the wounded.
> >
> > America was different this week. We wept for people we did not know.
> > We sent money to families we've never seen. Talk-show hosts read
> > Scriptures, journalists printed prayers. Our focus shifted from fashion
> > hemlines and box scores to orphans and widows and the future of the
> > world.
> >
> > We were different this week. Republicans stood next to Democrats.
> > Catholics prayed with Jews. Skin color was covered by the ash of
> > burning towers. This is a different country than it was a week ago.
> >
> > We're not as self-centered as we were. We're not as self-reliant as we
> > were. Hands are out. Knees are bent. This is not normal. And I have
> > to ask the question, "Do we want to go back to normal?"
> >
> > Are we being given a glimpse of a new way of life? Are we, as a nation,
> > being reminded that the enemy is not each other and the power is not in
> > ourselves and the future is not in our bank accounts?
> >
> > Could this unselfish prayerfulness be the way God intended for us to
> > live all along? Maybe this, in his eyes, is the way we are called to
> > live. And perhaps the best response to this tragedy is to refuse to go
> > back to normal.
> >
> > Perhaps the best response is to follow the example of Tom Burnet. He
> > was a passenger of flight 93. Minutes before the plane crashed in the
> > fields of Pennsylvania he reached is wife by cell phone. "We're all
> > going to die," he told her, "but there are three of us who are going to
> > do something about it."
> >
> > We can do something about it as well. We can resolve to care more. We
> > can resolve to pray more. And we can resolve that, God being our
> > helper, we'll never go back to normal again.
> >
> > Max Lucado
> >
> > Prayer is not a substitute for action; it is an action for which there
> > is no substitute.
> >
> > The literate person who chooses not to read has no great advantage over
> > the illiterate person who cannot.- Harold Bearce
> >