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Terrorist Attack Response Help

The unprecedented attack on the United States committed on September 11, 2001 has brought tremendous challenges to our country and society.  Among those challenges are the spiritual and religious challenges before us.  Here is a collection of material that may provide some guidance or help in this most difficult time.  This is one that was forwarded to me from a church member.

Where Was God?

 Where was God in all of this?

 Forwarded from a New York resident:

As I, like most other Americans and people world-wide, was watching and listening to the horror that took place on the East Coast, I heard many people ask the question posed in the subject line.  I was reminded of an interview with a Holocaust survivor that was asked the same question.  Her response inspired the following words.

 Where was God in all of this?

 God was in the rescue workers who were running into the buildings as most people were running out.

 God was in the flight attendant who called her husband as her plane was being hijacked to tell him that she loved him.

 God was in the two men who carried a wheelchair-bound woman down 70 flights of stairs to safety.

 God was in the people who stood bleeding, in line to give blood.

 God was in the strangers in cars, picking up strangers stranded in the city and taking them home to their families.

 God is in the people who are begging to volunteer, to do anything to help.

 God is in the thousands, if not millions, who are flooding blood banks thousands of miles away to help people they have never met.

 God is in the people who are comforting someone even when they don't know what to say.

 God is in the people who watched and cried for people who may remain anonymous in name, but never in their sacrifice.

 God is in my neighborhood where I see flags waving from every home.

 God is in the men and women, looking at 110 stories of rubble, and seeing only the opportunity to find survivors.

 God is with the heroes, most of whom will never be on the news, whose stories will only be told to their closest friends and family; but who saved someone's mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, husband, wife, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, cousin, lover, colleague, acquaintance, teacher, mentor or friend with a single act of kindness, compassion and bravery.

 God was not in the hearts of the people that caused these inhumane events.

 However, God was indeed there, where he was needed the most.