Can We Say More?

What else can be said about 9-11? With all of the words we can speak, pictures we can show, video and talking heads on the networks ... the pain, horror, and feeling of helplessness still remains. My friend Gary has mentioned a few times that he wonders why it hasn't happened again ... and I don't know. But I do think that one day in the future ... maybe the generation who was not old enough to see it happen live on television ... it will become a mere factiod of history. They'll mention it in a blase sort of way ... offhanded references that do not reflect the heartache we feel today. Even further out in time some history teacher will talk to a middle school social studies class and mention the attack on American soil and quizzical looks will be exchanged among the students as they indicate to each other that this is an unknown event to them. Or worse, they'll roll their eyes because they've heard their grandparents talk about this as if it matters. You know... the way some Christians do today when you start to talk about the cross. Their eyes glaze over ... they've heard it all before. They have the right words to say about that dreadful day of terrorism against the human race. Yes, it was "terrible" and "awful" and "I can barely stand to think of it." Millions wept at THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and no doubt will buy the DVD, t-shirt, wall calendar, book, CD, and bumper sticker. But the simple words in The Book, "there they crucified Him" ... well ... they lack the lustre of our interest. Cobwebbed and dust covered, that's what they are. Can we say more? We must. Can humanity afford to allow the bloody scene of the cross and the glorious empty tomb become nothing more than an apocalyptic Hansel and Gretel? Keep the story alive, because He is alive.