This past week saw the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Where were you when the world stopped turning, just for a moment? My mom remembered where she was when JFK was assassinated. I’ll always remember where I was on 9/11…
Rachel and I were living in Iasi, Romania at the time. On that Tuesday, I and some Christians were delivering food to people living in an abandoned apartment complex. The apartment had neither electricity nor running water. But families were living there. They heated and cooked close to windows so the fumes could go out the windows but the walls were blackened. Ironically, the neighborhood where this apartment was located was called “Beautiful.”
A Romanian friend who had lived in NYC for fourteen years was watching CNN that morning (which came on at weird hours of the morning) and saw the first two plane crashes. She called Rachel and asked if she were watching the news. Rachel turned it on and was as horrified as everyone else. Our friend asked if I was there, too, and Rachel told her no. Our friend sent her friend to get me to bring me home to be with Rachel. When her friend found me, he first told me, “Paul, planes are flying over the US and dropping bombs. You need to be home with Rachel….” Of course, I went home immediately, leaving the work with the Romanian Christians.
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Tragedies happen and life goes on. Lives are taken, sometimes intentionally and sometimes accidentally, but life goes on. It may be your loved one who is taken. Yes, life goes on but our lives aren’t ever the same. A chair at the table is missing. A place in our hearts becomes a hole where our loved one had been. Memories become much more precious. But life goes on. God will never leave us nor forsake us (Heb. 13:5). And we still have to serve and help the needy. We must still share the Gospel with others. We still must focus on living a faithful, blameless life.
Because, one day the world really will stop turning. Jesus will come again and He’ll be looking for the faithful (Luke 18:8).
Paul Holland
