Today is Friday, October 27th, 2006; Karen's Korner #920
About six weeks after the terrorist attack of the World Trade Center towers, Jim and I traveled to Bejing, China as part of our local bank's seniors travel club. My younger sister, Eileen, who wasn't and isn't in that age category, traveled with us.
We had signed up for the eight-day trip in the spring, prior to the planes knocking down the New York buildings. We were notified by the travel company, if we were afraid to travel or didn't want to be out of the United States due to the changing environment of the world, we could get our money back and cancel our travel plans.
At the urging of my "little sister", we kept our committed travel plans.
I don't know how full the plane would have been normally, but this November 2001 flight was about 2/3 full. Everyone was there because they wanted to fly; no one made them go. In the nearly 13 hour flight rarely did we hear these comments from travel passengers, but on occasion, someone would remark, "If there are terrorists on this flight, we aren't going down without a fight!" Todd Beamer and his friends flying on the ill-fated flight landing in Pennsylvania had become our new standard of dealing with terrorist attackers. I could envision shoes flying, words being exchanged; who knows what else!
I think that sometimes about myself, when the "negative" thoughts or "bad" things happen in my life. More of what happens to me isn't in the real world; it can be the crazy thoughts in my mind; the ones that will never become realities!
God knew that could and would happen to all of us....sometimes! We need to declare war on those thoughts and happenings. Stomp our feet and exclaim to those "terrorist thoughts which hold us hostage": "We are not going down without a fight!"
Proverbs 46:1 says "God is our refuge and our strength, a very tested help in times of trouble!" The real ones and the ones that just rattle around in our minds!
Today is a good day to celebrate that victory.......even if we don't feel like it, think like it, or act like it! We win again!!
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