What I do remember is a trip my 5th grade class took to New York City and Boston in June of 2001. For a small town girl like myself, New York was HUGE! You can't even begin to imagine, and the cabs... Well, that's another story, just be careful walking across the street when you have the signal to go... We spent 2 days in NYC. We saw Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty (we didn't know we should have gone to the top :( ), 5th ave (if you're looking for a bathroom, just go straight to Trump Towers! lol), and of course we saw the Twin Towers. Not only do I have a picture with them, we saw them from the Empire State Building too. It was awesome, but I could never live there (It's 3x the size of Atlanta!).
What hit me recently, though, was not the fact that I saw a sight my sister would never see in person, it was that our flight back to Panama City, was from the same airport two of the planes left from as well. Would it had been 3 months prior, I would not be the same person, I might not even be here, but God kept me around. I also thought about today, my 22nd birthday, that I would have missed my last 10 birthdays.
All of this together humbles me. God is so much bigger than any of us will ever be, but he loves us and he keeps us around for a reason. There is a Casting Crown lyric "how refreshing to know you don't need me, how amazing to find that you want me". God is just so great and he has so much love for us. I still can't wrap my head around all of this yet.
So, this Sunday, say a special prayer for our country. Pray for the people that put their lives on the line everyday to fight for people they don't even know (doesn't this sound like a missionary fighting for a God they've never met?). Pray for the families effected to this day by this tragedy. Pray for the air traffic controllers and the passengers flying. But most importantly, THANK God for the life he has given you to live.
Praising Him,
Jessica
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