Brightness

So I have been running every Saturday morning for about a month now. Each week the distance gets farther and harder and I often doubt my ability to do it, especially about the half-way point. :o) This morning as I started out my run (a little later than normal cause I didn't want to get out of bed) I received a call from my Mom about a death in the family. It was horribly sad and although I didn't know this person very well and it had been a long time since I last saw him and it was tragic and shook me. So as I'm walking, running and crying I begin to feel a sense of something or someone. I can't explain it except I remember at one time during my run around 2.3 miles I just looked to the side of me and said "Jesus run with me. Don't leave me alone" and in that moment I heard "you are never alone, of course I'll run with you". Now I'm not saying Jesus spoke directly to me. There was no bright light, no words of thunder where I could audib...

Is it really 10 years since our world changed forever? In some ways it seems like a very long time ago. Time does indeed heal the rawness that this day brought. But at the same time, just like everyone else, I will never forget where I was, what I was doing, who told me, etc on that fateful day. When I remember it's almost as if times has not passed and the pain tumbles over my heart and pours out of me. 10 years ago I had only been married about a month and a half. I was a preschool teacher at Parkcrest Assembly of God teaching 16 three year olds all day long. The job was incredibly demanding and hard but the kids were the reason I went every day. I remember hearing from a crying mother as she dropped off her son, Mason, that a plane had hit the 1st tower, then a few moments later a 2nd plane. We were under attack. Our classroom was filled with anxiety that day. The three year olds didn't understand what terrorists were or even where New York City was but they could see the ...