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Another September 11 has come around and it is interesting to read all the different takes on how and how much this day in our nation's history should be remembered.
I see a lot of the "We will never forget" and every time I see it I wonder for how many people that also means "We will never forgive". Yep, that is a hard one. I get the feeling some folks can't even go there at all. I understand that. Some things are just so terrible it can make you feel like you want to carry that hate towards it forever. Like your hate is the only justice that it will ever meet. I felt that way about being sexually abused as a child. I carried that delicious hatred for the person who did that to me for a very, very long time. It was all I thought I had because they never suffered any official punishment. I realized over time that the hate I carried with me was now what crippled me and allowed those things to continue hurting me long after I had grown up and stood up to my abuser and exposed what he was and what he had done to an innocent child. Forgiveness frees the victim but it does not change the fact the perpetrator will live with their crime forever. That is Universal justice and it cannot be escaped no matter how hard they try.
The trouble with 9/11 is that we don't really know the whole truth about who was really involved. My own Executive Administration has not convinced me yet they were not in some way involved in this incident and not knowing the truth about what happened makes it all the more difficult to process this horrible event and move beyond it. The truth will eventually come out, it always does, and if they were involved in a Reichstag and the people of this country find that out, God help them.
May every Soul that perished that day rest in peace. May their families find healing for their sadness. May that day eventually teach us how to rise above those who would harm us instead of carrying their crime in our hearts where it will forever be repeated upon us without end.
I "will never forget" what happened to me...but I had to find a way to forgive because that is the only way I would ever be free from it. There was a time I would have told you it couldn't be done but it had to be done and so I eventually got it done. It gave me a part of my life back that was so cruelly taken from me. But I guess you have to want to be free from the hatred of having been harmed and coming to that can take a long, long time. I hope as a nation, we can get there someday.
A place where to remember does not have to mean we continue to allow ourselves to be hurt by the people who did this to us...whoever they may turn out to be.
Peace y'all
