I voted and now it's in the Lord's hands!

My hands were trembling, my heart was pleading with my Savior as I stood in that little cubbie they give you to vote in. I knew this one meant something ... this time voting was different. Regardless of the outcome the vote that I cast yesterday is going to mean something. It could mean that my candidate (while granted not my ideal one) and his VP (ideal as they come) could be president, and we are (at least for now) on the right path to protecting some of our most prized rights. It could also mean that my candidate didn't win and that one of the most liberal candidates ever has now become our leader and my vote means that I will have to work that much harder to fight for the things that I believe in and to do my part to protect my beloved country from his menacing plans.

May God bless America and have Mercy on us all!! Regardless of the outcome my God is BIG and greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the World! Cover this election in prayer!

Where were you....

Being in Nashville, so far away from the city I love - make this anniversery that much hard. (I sit crying as I write this -- this picture is the view I had out the window of the office building I worked in)

I got a text message from my sister this morning and it verbalized what I'd been thinking since I got up this morning... "I still thank God that you were with me 'when the world stopped turning'".

From the moment I woke up... since my alarm is talk radio, I was reminded of the day 7 years ago when in the midst of chaos, God protected me and those that I love. I'll never forget anything about that day... I remember walking to work thinking "i'm so bored with this day already". My sister remember staring at her newspaper and thinking "what a boring news day". Little did we know what was to come, but what I do know is that God blessed the events of that day in such a way that my sister and I were together. If we hadn't happened to be on the same floor when we were evacuated we could have been on the same block and never known it.

I was supposed to have a chiropractor's appt. that morning downtown by the towers, and since all of you know how I feel about mornings -- I decided to postpone. God cancelled a meeting that my mama was supposed to be at. God miraculously kept my sister-in-law in His loving arms as she experienced tragedy first hand at the foot of the towers --- but that is her story of grace to tell, I'm just thankful she's around to tell it.

I toyed with making the title of this post "Have you Forgotten"... because so many times it's easy to go through life wihout remembering that day... the day where God provided a Christian family to give us a ride home on a day where all the busses and cabs were either full of price-gouging. Some of you may be reading this and thinking about why God didn't protect everyone, or whether I would be as big on God if one of my family members had been taken. I can tell you, that while I pray on a regular basis for the protection of my loved ones, that God is good... ALL the time!! His plan is bigger than us, and his love knows no bounds.... in the words of a man who knew tragedy "The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord (Job. 1:21 ESV).

May you all remember HIS goodness as we remember a day that proves man's need for it.