It is this mystery of God become small in Christ, of love penetrating suffering and death, that reveals to us that there is not just a gaping hole in the midst of that empty space we call ground zero, and in all the ground zeros that have beset us from even before the foundations of the world were laid.
Today we remember those events – the fire, the smoke speckled with bits of paper curled into the cloudless sky, those towers falling straight down like an elevator, the reverberations of the crashing planes that still makes us all unsteady…
But that is not all we remember…
We remember the dead, not as lost—but as living in him. We hope in our faith that in all those moments, when a great darkness descends, God in Christ is with us; he has us all in his view. It was for their sake, and all our sakes, that he gave himself to us in his Paschal Mystery. And in that moment of terror when this world gives way to darkness, our hope is that he is there as the Divine Light that dispels the darkness and guides us to that holiest of places, which is his kingdom yet to come.
--Fr. Steve Grunow,
Dispelling the Darkness of September 11th,
Word on Fire
Image source: Chunk of rubble from the Twin Towers with a Bible verse fused to it (Matthew 5:38-39);
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