Safe Harbor

Memories overwhelmed me on Sun night late as we learned that the person whose forces attacked our country 10 years ago was dead. Ten years ago, I heard on the radio at work that a plane had hit one of the twin towers and I remember thinking, man is that a horrible mistake. That morning Norbert was having a new tire put on his car and was in the waiting room and as we were talking about the plane hitting the tower, Norbert exclaimed another plane just hit the other tower! and that it was a commercial plane! Fear came over me and immediately I ran to a co workers office and we watched online as those towers burned. I work in a 3 story building and have gone down the stairwell many times. My heart sank as I thought of all the people trying to get down 80 plus flights of stairs, as well as the firefighters trying to get up the stairs to put out the fire. I made calls to my kids and family to make sure all were OK. Watching hours of video and programming on TV that evening of all of the destruction, I just shook my head an cried in disbelief that anyone could do such a horrible thing. Come to find out the ones that carried out the tragedy were all living amongst us here in the US as our neighbors. The next morning listening to all of the coverage on the radio on the way to work, I just cried and was overwhelmed with the fact that my kids and their future children would have to live in the shadow of this attack and the new type of enemy we were facing.
Were we all fearful? yes. Were we prepared to fight the enemy that had come to our shores and attacked us? yes.
Well, finally now after 10 years, we find out that the US special forces found him and killed him. While it is a relief, it will not bring those 3000 people back, and sadly will probably not stop the forces that live to destroy us. However, we must not live in fear, we must remind ourselves to trust the safe harbour that we say we have faith in....our life is in His hands and He will not let the enemy prevail. He is our Safe Harbor.