August 13, 2005

• revisiting 9/11 still brings tears to my eyes. it really does, and the sadness i feel for the families affected is overwhelming. it's a shame though, because in other parts of the world, the terror we faced in america on that day is an everyday lifestyle. death as a reality and dealt with fact in many peoples' lives outside of this country. i clicked on another article today on cnn.com, and this one was about the hyattes, the couple who shot an officer and sent authorities on a 36 hour manhunt. the article was talking about the officer who was killed, saying that he was a deacon in his church, a frequent volunteer who helped others, and here's the one that really got to me: a man who loved to sing duets with his wife at church. the reason that hit me is because growing up, ive seen many couples do just that, and i got to thinking about how tragedies like that could happen to simply anybody. imagine the pain of his family and his wife. over a thousand people attended his funeral. then i imagined if, in the future, my own wife and family had to deal with my death to some tragic misdemeanor. i stopped dead in my tracks and asked God in prayer, to please spare my family from anything like that happening to us. from happening in the lives of those i love. from happening period. it is a comfort to know though, that we, as well as that officer's family, have the hope of reuniting with those who have passed. in heavenly glory, if they too have made Jesus Christ the Lord of their life.
  
  
  

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  so many verses i wanna share and log onto xanga that it's hard to keep up. i cant even choose which passages to write on, there's just so much. so many beautiful and rich passages. here's one i was reading today:
  
  1 John 2
  
  ...if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: ² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world. ³ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. ⁶ He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
  
  
  

  ...the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. ⁹ He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. ¹⁰ He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. ¹¹ But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

  
  
  

  ¹² I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. ¹³ I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. ¹⁴ I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
  

  
  

  ¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

  
  
  

  ...abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. ²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

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