Turn Again to Life

I love this Blue Triptych Tree Collage by Sascalia. It reminds me of the perfect, blue skies of 9/11/01.

I wept today.

I wept for families I have never met whose pain cannot be quenched with time. I wept with the readers of the names at Ground Zero, whose emotion could be felt these hundreds of miles away. I wept with a country who, for now and always, looks over its shoulder with incertitude.

For my family, our personal connection to 9/11 made it safely out of the Pentagon. She had been receiving an award in a different part of the building and was spared the awful brunt of the day's attack.

But in so many ways--by love of country, by gift of service, by pledge of loyalty--we are affected, every one of us.

Today, I am reflecting on Psalm 46--read by the President in his address this morning--



"The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress."

Because of that, we turn again to life.