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2002-09-12

How did God feel about this?

My name is Ana. I am a mother of two young boys ages 10 and 6. I had just woken up, turned on the news as I usually do before I wake my children to get them ready for school. And woke up to the news and found out that a plane had just collided into the New York Twin Towers. It took me a minute to process but as many people thought "It was an accident".
Then the next plane hits. Confusion, disbeleif hits me. I was in shock. Are we being invaded? and why were we being invaded? Who's responsible for this! Is L.A. next? My children! my children! how do I protect my children? Just then my husband walks in from work, I was so glad to see him home. We are both still in "shock and disbelief" starring at the television.
I decided in my unstable state of mind that I was going to take my kids off to school. I woke them up and told them "Look someone crashed an airplane into the into the Twin Towers in New York" They asked my husband and I, "Who did it?" My husband and I responed by telling him " Some Bad Guys." My sons asks why? we said "We don't know why, they're trying to figure it out". They were confused, we were confused.
I managed to get my children off to school. As I walked into the school yard parents looked like I felt. They looked so disoriented, some mothers were sobbing unsure whether to leave their children alone without them in school. In my unstable condition somehow I thought that they would be safe, and if something should happen I would be near by to retreat them.
Horror, confusion and sorrow still lingures. "Saddness and Anger rolled up into one". How did God feel about this?

With Eternal Weeping Emotion,

Ana