September 11, 2001 - A Day after the day of infamy that will live forever!

 

Here is what I wrote for the Christian Evangelical church and others as well as to my various friends, between 2:30 and 4:00 am on September 12, 2001, mere hours after 911.  I was like many of you, and billions of others on the planet, enraged, in tears, sorrow, anger, fear and most of all, was deeply physically shocked and emotionally unstable. 

 

Therefore, this record is a time capsule of the pain of an ordained man of God who felt abandoned because of what God permitted man to do, to man. When at the greatest moment of (my deepest) despair, the right questions came, and still stand to this very day as designed and build, tall straight and invulnerable. They served as answers many around the globe try to live by.

 

Some may suggest that it may have been a better idea to pull the firm words of Christian faith out of this recounting of the critical events as perceived, but I maintain to do so I woud be altering history and obscuring truth. These things stand now as it stood then, firm and unwavering on the day the terrorists came and killed, and on the days months and years it has taken so far for us to drive them out.

 

The battle goes on, and on and on...

 

I ask your tolerance with this record and please try to think of me kindly, Truth of historical sampling accuracy is more important than censorship of shame. Although 100% established truth in my opinion, it is not intended for evangelism of anyone, but an accurate record of what was written, spoken and proclaimed by and in tens of thousands of churches, synagogues and mosques across the land, and a common sentiment for those that were there when the planes came, and fell. 

 

Thank you and I am by the Grace of that God (and Tom),

 

Stephen W.Wilcox

Manager of AVSIM Community Forums

 

PS:

 

God Bless Canada! God Bless the USA!

God bless all people everywhere who enjoy their freedom, or if not yet,  hope we still want to help them be set free!

 

Please Never, ever forget what happened here!

Tell your children's children to tell their children's children's children.

We must never forget, any of us, for the next time we play war on this scale,

it may very well be our last.

 

 

 

September 12, 2001

I woke up yesterday morning; September 11 at home in Calgary, Alberta Canada to what I thought was just another day.  After turning on the television to catch the weather, I ended up canceling my appointments in order to watch the horror unfolding in America to the south.

In the early afternoon, strangely unsettled, needing to connect with other hurting humans, I went to the Calgary International airport. The city streets and freeways were almost empty as most people stayed home with family, glued to the TV news coverage, grieving. I drove to and parked in an area close to the terminal. In a long line and stopped on taxi strips and unused runways were jumbo jets from all over the world, a sort of rainbow of colors and a who's who of the world’s airlines.

A small number of people were standing on the back of pickups and traffic barriers, staring at the evidence before their eyes of the truth of the shifting sands of the foundation of their world. There was a strange silence, no one making eye contact with another, each buried in nightmarish private thoughts. All my mundane, commonplace problems seemed so insignificant in light of the slaughter of so many in New York and Washington.

Airport Security, City of Calgary Police and RCMP patrolled the airport perimeters with a seriousness and consternation that forbid attracting their attention. It seemed like a different world from the orderly happy-go-lucky stampede city that seemed so permanent just a few hours before.

I watched as a few giant stragglers lined up to land, a United Airlines 747, an Air Canada 767, an Italian MD 11 and a Canada 3000 330. Each followed the one in front of them, stopping behind all the others, waiting for permission to approach the suddenly overloaded terminal and cautious Canadian authorities. For the thousands of passengers sitting and waiting endlessly on their grounded aircraft, I sensed that a radical un-welcomed change has imposed itself in their lives. A chapter in history has been closed. A new one begins.

It’s a curious weakness how shocked we, as modern humans, can be when the probable happens. Even though we know that life is temporary and on a slippery slope, we are always surprised by the proof of it. Society and civilization, as we know it, is no more secure than our own steady heartbeat, and the next lung full of air.

We are deeply reminded that the world is going to change one day before our eyes, if not today, then soon. The world will be doing business as usual, stocks being bought and sold, people getting married and divorced, everyone eating, sleeping and stumbling from one day, one month, and one year to the next.

But suddenly, without warning, out of the sky, will sound a trumpet. Immediately, forcefully, and permanently everything will change, for better or for worse, forever. Watching the airport nightmare unfolding, I realized how easily it would be for all the events foretold in the Scriptures to rush into reality.

No matter how events are now believed to be understood, the prophecies as God foretold them, will be upon us in a rush to judgment, in a flash, and the pages of history will stop, and the permanent record books will be opened. Not a single thing we foolishly consider important will matter anymore, discarded like the millions of pages and records lying unread in the dirty streets of Manhattan, once so important to so many, now blowing in the wind. All that will matter will be whether or not we have peace with God, a previous arrangement, redemption. Everything else will be just so much dust, clutter, blown away.

Those of us that know Him, and His ways, let us get real with our faith, put aside the temporary, embrace the permanent, and build the rest of our lives on rock. There will be an explosion in our world that will force everyone, alive and dead into the as yet veiled reality, bringing both sheer terror and incredible joy. How many will be saved? How many will be lost? What are we doing about it?

Stephen W Wilcox

Manager of AVSIM Forums

 

 

So, what about you?

 

Where were you? How was it in your heart and mind, your home and your thoughts? Share your 911 with us and what it has done to your life.

We say we are friends, so let's act like real friends that care for each other and those things that make us see ourselves as part of something greater than we ourselves are!  

Lets talk of our deeply buried trauma that all of us that were alive and who knew and suffered that day, share at the deepest possible level, at the bottom of our heart and at the top of our minds.

 

This is our community...

 

SWW

Wow, this is one of the best thoughts I've read in a LONG time. It is sad how things have changed in that split second and how they continue to negatively change. Thanks for the post, it made me take a step back and rethink a lot of things...

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Ok now, talk truth :huh:! Who's the blond? :Hypnotized: