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From: <david@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: [L-OT] This is What Most Of Us American Believe..


> WHERE WAS GOD IN ALL OF THIS?
>
> First of all, God was trying to discourage anyone from taking this
> flight. Those four flights together held over 1000 passengers and
> there
> was only 266 aboard.
>
> God was on 4 commercial flights giving terrified passengers the
> ability
> to stay calm.  Not one of the family members who was called by a loved
> one on one of the high-jacked planes said that passengers were
> screaming
> in the background.
>
> On one of the flights God was giving strength to passengers to try to
> overtake the highjackers.
>
> God was busy trying to create obstacles for employees at the World
> Trade
> Center.  After all only around 20,000 were at the towers when the
> first
> jet hit. Since the buildings hold over 50,000 workers, this was a
> miracle in itself.
>
> How many of the people who were employed at the WTC told the media
> that
> they were late for work or they had traffic delays?
>
> God was holding up 2-110 story buildings so that 2/3 of the workers
> could get out. It was so amazing that the top of the towers didn't
> topple when the jets impacted.
>
> 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.
>
> -- Author Unknown
>
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From: <maakbow@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [L-OT] This is What Most Of Us American Believe..


> > For an omniscient and all-powerful being, God seems quite selective.
> >
> > Tongue is a bit in cheek there just to demonstrate I just would
> prefer
> > people not presume what God's actions are or are not personally.
> >
> > > WHERE WAS GOD IN ALL OF THIS?
>
>
> why do people blame GOD for what other PEOPLE do?
> If any spiritual being is to be given blame, give it to satan.
> As for the acts themselves, that caused millions of people much grief
> and heartache, and the death of thousands,...they were committed by
> people.
> People can decide to do good, or decide to do evil.
> Let us decide to do good.
>
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