Survivors of 9/11 Remember God's Grace on 10th Anniversary

When you see so much horror and suffering it is hard to see God's love. If you look only at the suffering you just can't see how a loving God would ever allow it to happen in the first place. Yet if you look at the people around you, you can see love coming and then surround you. It all depends on what you're looking for.

How do people manage to rise above their own pain to put others first? How does someone battered and wounded care more for a stranger than they do for themselves? When you are suffering and someone comes to help you, who do you think sent them? When you pray for help from God and a stranger shows up, that is from God's love.

Reporters cover the anger of a riot but they don't cover the hope as people hang onto their dreams and rebuild their businesses and homes. They cover a tragic accident but never cover the funeral when hundreds of people take the time to offer comfort to the families. When they bother to cover war, they report on the deaths but never seem interested in the fact the men and women they served with set their own pain aside to support each other.

After 9-11 this is the picture that took my breath away.

Like most in the world, I was glued to the TV and reading whatever was on the Net but this is the picture that was proof of God's love when these men gently carried this man of God out of the rubble. The compassion they had was not damaged by what happened by the evil acts of others. The compassion the responders had for days piled onto days searching for remains was not weakened by the worst others had to offer. God was there every time someone reached out a hand. He was there every time a stranger showed mercy and He was there to hear the prayers of this nation for the sake of so many suffering and He sent so many to help in His place.

Buried, Burned Survivors of 9/11 Remember God's Grace on 10th Anniversary
By Eryn Sun
Christian Post Reporter

As Americans everywhere prepare for the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, two survivors live to testify not to the brutality but the grace extended to them on that frightful day.

Sujo John and Brian Birdwell, though personally unconnected in their lives, share one similarity – September 11.

While John worked in the North Tower of the Twin Towers, Birdwell was employed at the Pentagon when the multiple suicide attacks occurred ten years ago, leaving one critically injured.

Both men, who are reminded daily of their life-changing experience, share another similarity: their remarkable faith in Christ, which to this day continues to grow.

In videos released on I am Second, a website featuring authentic stories meant to inspire people to live for God and for others, John and Birdwell tell their own story of personal struggle, transformation, and hope in honor of the 9/11 anniversary.
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