Love Is Stronger Than Hate
This past weekend my wife and I spent some time in New York City with a friend who was having surgery there. We also took the time to experience some of the sights of the city. One of the most meaningful things that we did was to visit the National 9/11 Museum and Memorial on the site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in an evil terrorist attack seventeen years ago. It's hard to fathom the kind of hatred and twisted religious fundamentalism that would cause such death and destruction. As a people, we lost a lot on that day. We lost our innocence, our naive view of the wider world, our overall sense of safety... I felt old resentments well up inside of me, and hard words began to form on my lips. And then Merideth said to me, "We have to be better. We have to come from a place of love. We need to speak that into the world." About that time we rounded the corner and saw a display in the gift sh...