I was just pondering the enormity of the horror of this. And when I think of numbers, 6000 body bags, 20,000 people, 30,000 people.....it is too big. Too big for my mind to grasp the horror. I need to think smaller. Think about the person at Cantor Fitzgerald who was on the phone with the L.A. office screaming that they were dying there, think about the individuals who had to make the decision to jump rather than burn to death, think about the man who was traveling with his 2 month old child who called his wife and told her that the men on the plane had voted to overpower the hijackers. It is only when I think about individuals that I can get this in perspective. It is only when I think of the individuals that my eyes really start to well up and my jaw gets tight. I don't have enough tears in my body for 10,000 individuals, my brain won't let me grasp the emotional enormity. It is too overwhelming. And then you have to multiply those individuals by their loved ones. Their parents, their spouse, children, friends...all who have a profound loss.
I pray that we don't get numbed by numbers too large for us as individuals to comprehend. I pray that we don't forget that we remember that each and every one of the victims was an individual and that we mourn for them as individuals. |
