The numbers. 9/11 conjure up a host of memories for Americans who were alive on that day in 2001, 17 years ago. Images of the smoking, burning, crumbling twin towers, the panic stricken people running for their lives, the heroic firefighters, police and other first responders are forever embedded in our minds. The numbers who continue to die as a result of that day are staggering and show no signs yet of diminishing. Memorial services, classroom presentations, the media and certainly the way we live now motivate us to continue to pray for an end to terrorism as well as for the victims, living and dead, of that tragedy. Appropriately, part of this morning's Gospel, Luke 6:17-19, speaks of the power of Jesus to heal all who were brought to him with physical ailments as well as "tormented souls." Our tormented memories, our anger and bitterness need Jesus to heal them. They will not heal by themselves. It is right, good and helpful to pray for the healing of memories, not only those of 9/11 but of all the memories that keep resurging and plaguing us. Jesus, Holy Spirit, heal these memories that linger and continue to paralyze me. I turn them over to you.
Bro. Rene
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