We Remember

September 11,2001 will always be especially significant in my mind. It happened soon after our long awaited 3rd baby was born. I had become a new mother for the 3rd time after waiting five long years in wonder as to whether our family would ever have an increase. We had Steve's parents staying with us as they usually did to help out when we had a new baby in the family. It was a time of contentment and joy in our little world. We were quite oblivious to the events of the nation around us as we enjoyed and celebrated the special occasion of our new bundle of absolute joy:

Then, 13 days after Jeremy's birth, Dad Alger told me about hearing something tragic and how it should be on the news, quite unsure of the details. He thought he'd heard it was in Seattle at the Space Needle. When I turned on the television, it was all over the place, the vision of the tragic event that now took place 10 years ago. Each year as I reflect on that event, I am reminded of a song sung by Country star Alan Jackson called, "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning",

 I have never and doubt I ever will forget where I was and what I felt when the world truly seemed to stop turning as I stood in astonishment at what I was beholding as the news broadcast what had just happened that morning to thousands of innocent people, affecting millions of lives forever. Even now when I watch the news that described the event, my heart sinks, my knees are weak making me need to sit down and the uncontrollable desire to weep and possibly bawl overcomes me, as it did that day. It is an everlasting reminder that we as a nation need be united as a people. Tragedy marks the climax in any relationship whether it is a national, personal, worldwide, or eternal one. It marks strength or weakness. Progression, or destruction. It is the test of strength. To me, this is what took place on that significant day. A test to remind us where we are as a nation, a people, a society, and individual families in value and embodiment. It reminds me annually to check where I am spiritually and whether my priorities are in line. Today as I think of that tragic, yet heroic event of those that sacrificed so much on the line, I am grateful for my faith, those I love, and for the blessing to know that this world is just a temporary state of something far better in the life to come. That  the Savior is truly our Redeemer, how blessed we are, and that we live in this great Nation. We are so incredibly blessed.