"As I, like most other Americans and people world-wide, was
watching and listening to the horror that took place on the East
Coast, I heard many people ask the question posed in the subject
line. I was reminded of an interview with a Holocaust survivor
that was asked the same question. Her response inspired the following
words."
Author - a New York resident
Where was God in all of this? God was in the rescue workers
who were running into the buildings as most people were running
out.
God was in the flight attendant who called her husband as
her plane was being hijacked to tell him that she loved him.
God was in the two men who carried a wheelchair-bound woman
down 70 flights of stairs to safety.
God was in the people who stood bleeding, in line to give
blood.
God was in the strangers in cars, picking up strangers stranded
in the city and taking them home to their families.
God is in the people who are begging to volunteer, to do
anything to help.
God is in the thousands, if not millions who are flooding
blood banks thousands of miles away to help people they have
never met.
God is in the people who are comforting someone even when
they don't know what to say.
God is in the people who watched and cried for people who
may remain anonymous in name, but never in their sacrifice.
God is in my neighborhood where I see flags waving from
every home.
God is in the men and women, looking at 110 stories of rubble,
and seeing only the opportunity to find survivors.
God is with the heroes, most of whom will never be on the
news, whose stories will only be told to their closest friends
and family; but who saved someone's mother, father, sister,
brother, daughter, son, husband, wife, grandmother, grandfather,
aunt, uncle, cousin, lover, colleague, acquaintance, teacher,
mentor or friend with a single act of kindness, compassion and
bravery.
God was not in the hearts of the people that caused these
inhumane events. However, God was indeed there, where he was
needed the most.
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