So, I might be pregnant. LOL We went to the Green Market today and these looked so good. haha Ok, so initially I only had one but the girls decided that they didn't want theirs so guess who volunteered to eat them. ;) 

Breakfast, Anyone?

I know what we're doing for breakfast tomorrow!!! The girls are going to FLIP!! I got it from Bealls. Online has it for $38.99 but I ordered it in store and got it for $29.99 because it is in the ad from this week and it looks as though it is priced at $29.99 so they corrected the price for me. :)

Where I Was When the World Stopped Turning

Where was I that fateful morning, you ask? I was taking my brothers to school and had the radio on the MJ in the Morning Show. MJ was talking about a plane hitting the Trade Center building and I remember being disgusted in the joke that he was playing. After all, it was a morning show, morning shows are notorious for playing jokes, right? I switched the channel to find something else, determined never to listen again after he had just taken it too far, and the same "joke" was on every station. I switched it back to MJ when I realized then that it wasn't a joke and I just sat there in silence and confusion. I had the same thoughts that everyone else did; "it was probably fog and some amateur pilot..how sad." - No, it was a clear day. "I bet the pilot on that liner was tired or drunk." - The plane had just taken off not that long ago, fatigue or drunkenness a possibility? Sure, but not a probability. It was then that in the one mile drive from the middle school to our house that the words, "terrorist attack" entered my head and subsequently were mentioned over the radio. No, it can't be! This is the 21st century and this is America...things like that don't happen anymore!! That was the first plane and tower.

After I got home I rushed inside and immediately turned on the TV. No one was home since I had just taken my brothers to school and my parents had already left for work. I turned on the TV just as the second plane hit. Now THAT was a surreal feeling. It was that moment that I knew in my heart that this was, in fact, our worst nightmare and the country, as we knew it, would never be the same again. I watched in awe as two iconic buildings of so much prestige were attacked. I was one of the many who watched people jumping from the top floors because that was a better option than the heat and the flames. I watched and I cried as I thought about everything that I was seeing and hearing and just what was going on. I cried because I was scared and I cried because I was confused.

Here we are 12 years later and I still remember that day like it was yesterday. So much has changed yet so much has stayed the same. I have graduated college with 3 degrees, gotten married, had 3 children (and one on the way), moved away, moved back, we as a nation have gone to war, we have changed presidents (good Lord, and not for the better), the list really goes on and on. The constant through everything, however, is that God is still here and He is still in command, and He knows all that has and will occur. September 11, 2001 may have felt like the day that God took a nap or turned his head but I think that it was the beginning of prophecy coming to play; the times that He talked about in Matthew 24: 6-8, "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilence, and earthquakes, in diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." These things must happen but we are not to be afraid of them for God knew they were going to happen and He tells us in Jeremiah 1:8, "Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you." No, God wasn't sleeping that day, He was sitting there watching and crying with us, just waiting for us, His children, to call to Him and seek Him for the comfort that only He can bring. "But all of those innocent people, those innocent children who had no chance, why didn't he save them??" He has already answered that in Isaiah 57:1-2, "Good people pass away; the godly often die before their time. But no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come. For those who follow godly paths will rest in peace when they die." We will not fully understand any of this until we, too, are sitting at the feet of Jesus and even then I believe that we won't want to know why it happened or why some were taken from us so soon. We are going to be so in awe and overcome with peace and joy that we aren't going to be thinking about the bad that has happened on this Earth, we are going to be focusing on the face of Jesus! 

My challenge to you on this somber day where as much as it feels as though the world has forgotten what happened so many yet not so many years ago, don't walk in sorrow and pain walk in the knowledge that God is with you and He will continue to comfort and bless you. We can still mourn, it says in Matthew 5:4 that those who mourn are blessed because they will comforted by Christ. (And who better to be comforted by??) Remember this day, dear readers, never ever forget, but also remember that there is One who loves you, who is in control of everything, and who is just waiting for you to come to Him.