Walking in the Shadows

I can't believe I didn't post this yesterday! This week has been beyond busy and I simply did not have the time to finish and post. Think about where you were on September 11, 2001 and think about where you are on September 11, 2013 and I don't mean physically. Where is our country today? Are we closer to the roots of our country or further away? *Conclusion of letter written shortly after 9/11/01 attack. September 11, 2001 You arose early your second morning at home, you surely didn't want to miss a thing. We were snuggling on the couch, I guess it was a little after 8:00 am (I had let your Daddy sleep in) when the call came. It was your Nana and she was calling to tell us there had been an accident, it seemed an airplane had somehow crashed into the World Trade Center. I hang up the phone as I turn on the TV and wonder how could the pilot have flown so far off course. As I am processing what I see, there comes another plane and it hits the second tower and I...

12 years ago today, around 8:30 am, my world was forever changed. I became a Mother at the ripe age of 22. What an exciting time, and how I felt we could take on the world, our little family. As I was thinking about writing a special birthday post to Ethan, I remembered a letter I wrote to him shortly after his birth and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.  Today, I am going to share a part of that letter and hope to share the rest on the anniversary of the 9/11/01 attack. I thought as I read the letter written 12 years ago, how I feared the changes ahead for my newborn son and wondered what his world would look like. Now, as I look at his world I cringe with what it has become and grow burdened for all three of my children as they face such uncertain times.  As Ethan embarks on a new phase in his life (ah adolescence), I am so very proud of the young man he is becoming and praise the Lord that he has already given him his heart. Ethan is my leader, the one I a...