Twenty years ago today, I was in my office in Pittsburg. I was to board a plane later that day but, in the meantime, I had a business meeting scheduled with a man from Chicago. Before he arrived, we learned of what happened in New York.
Our offices were not far from the airport, and as we got additional word of what was happening we decided to tell the nearly 500 people in the building to go safely home.
As the last of our employees were leaving, the man from Chicago arrived. Flying in on one of the last flights before plans were grounded, the man from Chicago greeted me not knowing what had happened. As I relayed the stunning details of what had happened, the man from Chicago had only two thoughts how was his family and how could he get safely home.
Flights had been grounded, hotels were filled with stranded airline passengers and crew. With nowhere to go, I offered the man from Chicago lodging at my home. He declined, not because he did not want to stay at my home but because he wanted to return to his home. He got a rental car and the man from Chicago made his way safely home.
Jesus said, “In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2) On this tender day, we can all remember where we were, what we were doing, and like the man from Chicago how were our loved ones and how we make it safely home.
God is concerned for you and has prepared a home for you not only in the afterlife but in this life. So, on this twenty anniversary of the 9/11 attacks when so many died and where so many more have died in the past 20 years for our freedom. Let us follow the teachings of our Lord understating that the first of our freedoms is to love the Lord and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
If we believe that and we know that then we can defeat anything in our way, from a terrorist to a virus because we are doing the Lord’s work. We are doing the Lord’s work because freedom in loving the Lord means that we wear a mask so that our brothers, sisters are protected. We are doing the Lord’s work when we believe more in the collective good than individual entitlement, which is falsely thought by so many to mean freedom. And we are doing the Lord’s work when we take the vaccine, not because of a mandate from the government but because we love the Lord so much that we follow the commandment to love our neighbor.
When we do the work of the Lord we will be guided safely home, just like the man from Chicago.
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