This Sunday in worship at FBC Columbus we will play a video featuring Alan Jackson’s song Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning? as a call to reflection and prayer on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. It’s one of those questions most of us know the answer to: Where were you?
I was just dropping our youngest child (then two years old) off at the babysitter’s when we stopped to watch the images unfolding on the morning news program playing on television. We stood there in her living room horror-struck as we (like many of you) witnessed the second plane slam into the other twin tower. The world changed that day. It’s hard to believe it has been ten years, but that two-year old is now almost as tall as her mother and has hardly known a world without the threat of terror.
It seems every generation has had their “where were you” question(s). Where were you when . . . . Pearl Harbor was bombed? . . . President Kennedy was shot? . . . MLK was assassinated?. . . . the Challenger exploded? Sometimes we even turn the question around and ask it of God. “Where were you, God?” is asked in a manner consistent with, “How could you let this happen?”. Continue reading