1:03:31 AM EDT
Feeling Angry
LONDON ~ RUSSELL SQUARE
I don't recall the date exactly but it's been about 17 years ... I won a trip to England to go to the Prince's Trust Concert from a local (well, where I lived then) radio station. I was standing on the same turf as where the bus that got blown up yesterday back then and I still recall that a day after I arrived home a bomb was detonated in the tube station a block away from the Hotel Russell where we were staying and I had been in the station several times while I was on that trip. I guess the overwhelming joy I felt on that escapade come crumbling down after that incident and can feel it again now. I have a vision of Charlie Osborne's son from Iowa standing at the doorway to the Hotel in his overalls ... I remember the beautiful garden across the street from the Hotel and many other things but one that comes to mind clearly is the sound of the emergency vehicles that wound around London town, that's what I hear when I think of what happened yesterday. I am scared for all of us who are innocently living our lives and at any moment can simply be blown away ! literally !! by the narcissistic power hungry zealots whose cowardice attacks for the glory of it. There is no "holy war" to be fought . . . Jesus was a gentle man and a servant. He came to bring peace and yet he also came to bring separation. Who am I to question God's ultimate purposes or timing ... although I do question it to no avail. Maybe this will all make sense to our finite minds when we leave the gravity of this earth on which we stand. Who knows what any of it is worth ... including life. I am not sure I get anything right now. I hate to admit how deeply and how long the 9/11 attack affected me . . . in some ways still affects me. I'm petrified to cross over tall bridges and fear flying worse than ever. It doesn't stop me I just pray more now ... ant that is the ULTIMATE POWER trip - to believe on the future as it is written in scripture at least that is the truth as I see it.
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