On September 11th, almost 7000 innocents of earth were massacred.
We watched from our televisions around the world scarcely able to comprehend what we were seeing with our own eyes. Disbelieving, even as the reality set in, we called family and friends and connected with each other, reaching out, wanting reassurrance. But for thousands, there could be no connection, there could be no reassurance of a loved one's voice or hand. For those whose loved ones died in the World trade Towers, on the 4 hijacked airplanes, and in the Pentagon, comfort would not come. For the rest of us, we reeled and tried to wrap our minds around the mind-boggling concept that human beings could conceive of such a horrific act, and be willing to die in its execution.
On Sept. 11th, 2001, approximately 7000 souls were abruptly taken from this life. Taken without warning, taken from their families, in an instant they were spirit only......now disembodied, and confronting change on the most profound level we can ever experience change. We have heard story after story over the past weeks of miraculous escapes, and bizarre coincidences which occurred. Perhaps many of these "coincidences" were guided by these newly changed lives, now spirits guiding and leading and assisiting the living. There was one story of a man who miraculously made it out of one of the towers because he suddenly came across a severly burned woman whom he helped to get out of the tower, people parting to let them through when they saw her condition. What he did not know till much later was that his beloved sister and her precious little daughter had just died moments before in the plane which had crashed into the tower causing the explosion. Did she guide her brother to aide the burned woman, thus saving them both? He believes so.
Here, in what may well be considered the noo-noos of rural Pennsylvania, Spell_Weever's company closed mid-day. Banks closed early, as did most businesses. Many school children watched on their school's TVs, and arrived home in various states of emotion. Some children came home to the news that one of their parents would never be coming home again. So here, in the woods, we were not immune, we were not isolated from it all. The woods evaporated, and in a moment we were in New York, we were in Washington DC, we were in a feild in Western Pennsylvania, and we were one heart, one wounded, and embracing soul.
No, nothing will ever be quite the same again on this earth. But it may be, it is possible, that from this horrible tragedy good may yet come. As wiccans, we pray and visualize a world of safety, a world of unity, a world of acceptance, and a world where human beings finaly will learn to live in peace with one another. This cannot occur while any person is not only allowed to but encouraged and trained to discount other's safety, rights and freedoms, and to forcefully, and violently control others to their own narrow view, whether religious or political. Those who would protect the innocent, and take a stand against control by terror, are coming together, and forming a bond that is more than just human....it is also heart, soul and spirit of this precious planet which is crying for her children. |
