Love

It's September 11th 2011, it is ten years after the tragic attack on our country. This whole last month there have been documenteries and news reports, newspaper articles and stories of loved ones lost. There have been as many stories of those who acted heroically in those days, and months to follow. Much gratitutde and also some regret has been expressed on a national level. Our lives have changed drasticly as the "happy go lucky" country we were. However we have become more careful, loving, family oriented. We have matured.



Thomas S Monson:


"If there is a spiritual lesson to be learned from our experience that faitful day, it may be that we owe God faithfulness... It should not require tragidy for us to remember him, and we should not be compeled to humilty before giving him our faith and trust. We should be with him in every season.

I had a friend when I was young who always said "I love you" to her parents when she left the house. even to go to the mail box. I found it odd and asked her about it. She told me you never know when you arent going to see them again. This friend died when she was 18 in a car accident. The life lesson she taught me was invaluable.

My heart goes to friends who have suffered loss of loved ones, from all sorts of situations. Those who I know who are suffering loss now and I pray for healing in thier hearts. I pray the same for those I do not know who have suffered on my behalf, who have sacrificed thier family members to keep threats from our door, nieghborhood, country. Most of all I pray for thier faith in God to be strengthened.

As I listen to the many stories of those who lost on 9/11 I think of striving for continual strength and faith in the Lord because I know as a personal fact he lifts you up and eases the blow. I also wamt to always tell my loved ones how much I love them. No matter how "too big" my kids get for it or how "corny" my husband thinks it is!

I will not let an oportunity by to appreciate what I have, and recognise where it came from, be it a gift or born of trial. I love my life, and I love my family; and as I sit here this Sunday I am reminded of how blessed I am .