{9-11}

We just finished watching a History Channel special on 9/11 (102 minutes that changed...). I was once again reminded of something that I sometimes think is easy to overlook.

While Satan's Army is exercising their free agency to carry out Satan's Evil Plan, our Heavenly Father is there, watching over us and helping us in ways that we don't even know.

I just kept thinking that while watching this special and part of the show before it. They said that the towers on a normal day would have 30-40,000 people in each one. A potential of 60-80,000 people could have died that day. Just think if the towers would of have been struck even one hour later. As it was, we lost nearly 3,000 people, but it could have been so much worse.

What about all the people who for some reason or another were late to work. It almost seems like an unusually high number for that one day. Their reasons were all over the spectrum - kids couldn't find their shoes or backpacks, slept through the alarm, mom called and couldn't get off the phone in time, having a rough morning after a Monday Night Football party, they were sick, and so on.

Then there were the people inside. I believe that some people were prepared for this day. Not in the sense that they had what was physically needed, but that the Lord had given them experiences in their lives that would allow them to heroically save thousands of lives, even at the cost of their own. I learned about a man who helped get all the Stanley Morgan people out of the building, around 3,000 of them. He was there with a bull horn making sure that everyone got out and keeping them calm and orderly. Telling them they were all good Americans that didn't run, but were orderly, in his efforts to safely get them down the stairwells.

I know sometimes it is hard to see the Lord's hand in all things. I know that this country was founded by the will of God and as long as we acknowledge him in our lives and the affairs of this great nation, he will be there to guide us and keep us united and strong.