Tuesday, September 11, 2018

BENJI Good morning! I’m Benji Riddle – Director of Youth Ministry at Central United Methodist. Today is Patriots Day and marks 17 years since this nation witnessed the events of 9/11. This event shook the world with such magnitude and grief, that we still feel the gravity of it nearly two decades later. I recall watching the situation unfold on the classroom television in Ms. Bostwick’s English class. And what struck me almost as hard as what I felt seeing this tragedy as it occurred was watching the incredibly good things that began to happen afterward. The outpouring of support and love to those affected; the spirit of unity that crossed racial, political, financial, and social lines. When people could not find answers to this event on earth, they returned to churches and faith communities and turned their attention heavenward and were met with God’s consolation, peace, and comfort. May we take time today to remember what happened before, and may it spur us onward to become people of love, faith, and hope; and may we no longer let manmade divisions keep us from being One Nation Under God.