By pure chance my weekly day off from work happened to fall on 9/11/2014. My husband and I, for the most part, have kept the television off today and instead have spent our time on prayer and Bible reading, on preparing very spartan meals, on running vitally important errands, and on attending to the needs of others.
What I would have preferred to see in the news on 9/11/14 was the successful capture, demise, or decisive defeat of the ringleaders among the Islamic militants who threaten the entire civilized world (or what remains of it). I was especially hoping for an all-out attack on ISIS, not that I expected any such thing.
Instead, in the mainstream media, it’s all grim retrospectives on the 9/11/01 attack – which I am old enough to remember all too well. The mainstream media is not about to expose the true root cause of 9/11/01, the 2002 Bali bombings, 7/7/2005, the murderous Beslan attack, and innumerable other evil deeds – namely, Islamic doctrine itself. Even self-styled conservatives in the alternative media mindlessly deflect the blame for the abject failure of US and EU foreign policy against any scapegoats they can find – against Russia and Vladimir Putin, against Israel and the Jews (or their supposedly powerful lobby in DC), against Bible-believing Christians, and even against the Tea Party, of which I have been a supporter since its inception.
Back to work tomorrow. I am growing old and I am exhausted physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially, and in every other possible way. By now I probably know more people who are departed than who are living, and I have cause to envy them. When it comes time for me to go, I will be more than ready. Until then, I will use what remains of my dwindling time and strength to attempt to communicate the truth.
The nearly 3,000 faces of those who died in the 9/11 attacks. May they rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/g0LtHFjIOO
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) September 11, 2014
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“The nearly 3,000 faces of those who died in the 9/11 attacks. May they rest in peace. ”
Amen!
I feel rather like you. 🙁
“Back to work tomorrow. I am growing old and I am exhausted physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially, and in every other possible way. By now I probably know more people who are departed than who are living, and I have cause to envy them. When it comes time for me to go, I will be more than ready. Until then, I will use what remains of my dwindling time and strength to attempt to communicate the truth .”
Still, I try to make the most of each day and it is a challenge. Can’t say I have had much success,
I hear ya…