Looming...

I remember one evening, over 10 years ago now, where my family was all tucked safely in their beds, and I was on the computer playing games, and I was watching the news.  I remember thinking that there wasn't much news to report because all the pieces were social... like school starting and announcement type things.  It was a very specific thought in my head - that there was" no real news."

The next morning, a fellow church goer called and woke me up and told me to turn on the television, that a plane had just flown into one of the Twin Towers in New York.

Those of us old enough to absorb the news of that day, remember those events to a "T".  We all know how our lives changed  after that day.  We all know how the world changed after that day...

9/11

Infamous.

Unforgettable.

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Are we on the brink of another catastrophic time in our country's history?

Could something beyond our imaginations being looming just beyond the horizon of a another new day?

Our houses of government can't seem to come to an agreement about health care, and are not passing a budget to keep our country from a financial shutdown because of it.  Federal agencies seem to be gearing up for disaster according to reports of military and medical supplies being on the ready.  Rumors of camps being set up in places all over the country.  Other military on our soil.  For what?

Could the powers of an office be abused?

Could everything our country has stood for, for over two hundred years, be coming to an end?

Are we the people who are going to be caught up in a part of history that we have only read about before in other societies, ancient and in the modern era?

God help us.  Please Lord, protect us.

October 1st is only two days away...,

and I think I need to buy a few more cans of Spam.

:I