OK, I’m late to the party with this, but I’ve just read the September 2021 issue of the Smithsonian magazine, and I want to share a few thoughts prompted by the mag’s article called “After 9/11.”
This won’t be cheery holiday stuff, sorry to say. However, I’ll do my best to put a hopeful spin on it.
Let me set this up for you.
As someone who is blind (with a little usable vision), I receive services from the National Library Services for the Blind & Print Handicapped (NLS for short). They produce thousands of talking books (audio books) each year, including selected magazines. That’s how I read, or listened to, the September Smithsonian.
The article called “After 9/11” is about the lives of a number of people 20 years after 9/11. It features several moving accounts of people who lost loved ones. One account is of a first responder who was badly injured.
It’s evident the woman reading the article had a hard time holding back tears. I imagine she had to stop reading several times before finishing the piece.
When I first started into the article, I wondered what kind of propaganda Smithsonian was going to dish out. Nothing was said about the alleged perpetrators of 9/11, for which I’m thankful.
I don’t buy the so-called official narrative about what happened that day. Thus, I was glad not to mentally have to screen out the usual nonsense while reading the piece.
I kept reading and was reminded that real people with real lives, jobs and families were affected by the events of that fateful day. The article put a human face on 9/11 which, I confess, I hadn’t thought of for a while.
The heartless creeps who brought about that day’s acts of terrorism will have much to answer for before God one day.
It will sound like a giant leap to connect 9/11 with the events of our present day, but consider this. The deception surrounding 9/11 by the powers that be has worked so well that the corona virus and its subsequent events were surely a piece of cake for them to foist upon us.
Woe to the perpetrators, and woe to so many of us who have been fooled by them. It’s infuriating, sad, disgusting and frustrating. I take heart in knowing that the Scriptures remind us that vengeance is the Lord’s.
OK, my apologies for being such a downer. On the other hand, maybe we need to be reminded of these things from time to time.
This past Sunday I had the privilege of teaching through Romans 3 in Sunday school. That chapter, as well as Romans 1:18-32, lays out the nature of the depravity of man. But the last few verses of Romans 3, and beyond, give us the message that God has made redemption available through Christ. Otherwise, we would have no hope.
If you don’t know what that hope is about, read through the first eight chapters of Romans, and receive the message the Lord has for you there.