A Promise to Always Remember
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There is Power in Remembering
24 Years since that dark 9-11 day. For months afterwards people were kinder, hearts were more sensitive, we turned to God and to each other; humanity in the United States was amplified.
I hope that we can care once again for each other's suffering, well-being, and liberty. We are all created in the image of God with the power to reason, love, render grace, and forgive. We all have a right to those liberties given to us by God our Father and penned in our Constitution.
For all the differences of opinion, I hope to care more for my fellow men than to condemn them because they have a different backstory than I do, and therefore view things differently than I do. Essentially, I think we all love our families and are looking for happiness, safety, and prosperity. We need to stop fearing those who don't think the same as we do. We have so much more in common than differences we perceive.
It appears that our promise to never forget has been forgotten. It's way more important to remember the brotherhood of mankind than to remember that some evil people took many lives. It seems more important to reach out to our family, friends, neighbors, everyone with kindness and care than to cut people off because their responses don't match what we think they should.
In this Country that boasts tolerance, why have we become so intolerant of each other? We need to be humble enough to put faith into practice and live the Golden Rule. We need to push away our fears.
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love" (1 John 4:18)
