14 Short Years

It's been 14 years since that awful day when terror struck our shores.  The memory of that day has become bittersweet when I look around and see what has happened in our country since that day.  Rather than being a rallying cry that brings us together, the effects have ripped us apart and caused us to turn against each other and against the very principles that our nation was founded upon.  Not that we were not already heading in that direction, but the rapid acceleration since that day has been staggering.  While we saw the towers crumble into a pile of dust in seconds, the nation has been crumbling into a pile a dust in the years since.


Who would have ever thought that those who we honored as heroes on 9/11 would now be looked at with such disdain and be targets for assassination in our cites.  At the same time who would have thought that they would have been transformed from  people who protect and serve our communities into a branch of our military force being used against us to prevent such horrible crimes such as organic farming or home schooling.


Who would have thought that our government would turn to spying on its own citizens or groping grandma's at the airport?  Who would have thought we would be flying drones over our citizens for law enforcement purposes?  Who would have thought that we would have to prove our citizenship to drive a truck?  Who would have thought that people would have to censor their own words for fear of losing their jobs?  Who would have thought that we would be jailing people for their religious beliefs?  Who would have thought that we would be so angrily divided as a people?  Who would have thought that we could pass a law to force people to buy something?  Who would have thought that an open socialist could be running for president and have any kind up support at all?  Who would have thought that the racial divide would spread further apart instead of coming together?


There are so many more "who would have thoughts" that I could list.  I could fill a whole paper with those questions.  It's a day I look at and think that it should have brought us together and turned us back towards God, that has instead caused us to defiantly turn our backs on him to the point where we now consider sin to be a good, and belief in him something worth being jailed for.


Our current administration has stopped our war against the folks who perpetrated the horrible attacks against us and have taken actions that have actually helped our enemies advance and grow.  We are making deals with  nations that want to destroy us and arming groups whose goal it is to overthrow us.  The war that came to our shores on 9/11 2001 has not ended and our enemies will continue to try and achieve their goal of world domination and every human being subject to sharia law.  Imagine the irony that we now fund this.


We lost thousands of lives on that day, and thousands more since with countless thousands maimed trying to put an end to this, only to now see us cowering in fear if we even make a cartoon, cowering in fear if we say no to  Muslims practice, cowering in fear to speak against them.  We have people who call others bigots for speaking up against Islam, but those same people who call others bigots think nothing of hating on Christians, taking away their businesses, fining them, jailing them, telling them they can no longer hold certain jobs.  Is this how we are honoring our fallen?


We lost a lot more on 9/11 than just those few thousand lives.  We have lost our way